English → Latin
“finance” in Latin
vectīgaltax, tribute, (public) revenue; windfall, profit, (private) revenueaerāriuscopper, bronzefiscusbasket; purse; treasury; public moneypertineōto extend, stretch out, reach, matter; to belong, relate, pertain, have concern; to have a tendency to, tend to
The English word finance itself goes back to Latin fīnis.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
finance
Of a private individual, res familiaris (i. e., property): vectigal, or in plur., vectigalia (i. e., revenues): finances that are in a bad state, res familiaris perturbata: anybody’s finances are in a bad state, comminutus est aliquis re familiari.
Of a state or prince, vectigalia (revenue of the state): aerarium (the treasury): fiscus (private treasury of a prince, in time of emperors). To regulate the finance, vectigalia or rem publicam ordinare (after Hor., Od., 2, 1, 10): things pertaining to the finances, financial matters, *res ad vectigalia (or ad aerarium) pertinentes; also respublica (after the Greek πολιτεία, according to Morgenstern, in Seebode’s Archiv. 1829, No. 17, p. 68; e.g., modica respublica novis sumtibus atterebatur, Plin., Ep. 9, 33, 10): the science of finance, doctrina rerum ad vectigalia pertinentium: the administration of the finances, cura aerarii (Suet., Oct., 36): minister of finance, i. e., our “first lord of the treasury,” cui cura aerarii tradita est (after Suet., Oct., 36).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for finance?
- The usual Latin words for “finance” are vectīgal, aerārius, fiscus; also pertineō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.