“interest” in Latin

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Attract, etc., jucundum esse: delectare: capere (to take one’s fancy): rapere (to carry one away captive, as it were; fill one with astonishment). To interest anybody, alicui placere; aliquem delectare or delectatione allicere (to please, amuse, etc.): aliquem tenere (to arrest one’s attention, etc.; e.g., audientium animos novitate). (2)

To be interested in anything, or anything interests (= concerns) me, aliquid mea interest; with substantives, the person stands in the genitive: aliquid ad me pertinet. It interests me less (than), or but little, minor mea res agitur. Vid: To CONCERN. (3)

To interest one’s self for or about anything, aliquid ad me pertinere puto; aliquid mihi curae or cordi est (☞ not curae cordique, anything is an object I have at heart): foveo aliquid (I favor, cherish, endeavor to promote it, etc.; e.g., artes): incumbere alicui rei, in aliquid, or ad aliquid (to apply one’s self vigorously to any pursuit, etc.): de aliquo laborare (to be anxious about anybody; e.g., vel ex hoc ipso, quod tam vehementer de Milone laborem, Cic.). To interest one’s self for anybody, cupio alicujus causa (Vid: Cic., Fam., 13, 64, 1: Rosc. Am., 51, 149); alicui studeo; alicujus sum studiosus: alicui faveo (I favor him, etc.): alicui tribuo (give him active support; ☞ Cortte ad Cic., Fam., 13, 9, 2). To induce anybody to interest himself in one’s service or cause, aliquem ad studium sui perducere; allicere atque excitare alicujus studium ad utilitates nostras.

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Participation (PROP. or figuratively) in the advantage or value of anything, studium (the interest taken in anything). I have an interest in anything, mea aliquid interest; ad me aliquid pertinet: I take an interest in anything, non alienum aliquid a me puto: I have less interest in it than, etc., minor mea res agitur: since he had no longer any interest in it, cum ejus jam nihil interesset. To be brought to take an interest in anything, affici aliqua re (☞ Quint., 2, 1, 16; we are brought to take an interest in their danger, eorum periculo afficimur).

Attractiveness, etc., voluptas: jucunditas (pleasantness): oblectatio: oblectamentum (amusement). To be of interest to anybody, jucundum esse: to have but little interest for anybody, mediocriter aliquem retinere: to give an interest to anything, voluptatem dare alicui rei (Quint., 10, 5, 11).

Advantage, profit, res, or rationes, or causa alicujus (his affairs generally): commodum (his advantage, etc.): utilitas (profit, etc.; also, what is expedient, opposed to what is right): emolumentum (ὠφέλημα, opposed to detrimentum,” gain falling to one’s share without any exertion of one’s own;” Döderlein): The public interest, res or causa communis; communis omnium utilitas: anything is my interest, aliquid est e re mea: to consider that one shall advance one’s own interests by, etc., rebus suis se consulturum sperare: what you believe to be for my interest, quae mihi intelligis esse accommodata: so my interests require it, rationes meae ita ferunt: my interest requires it, expedit mihi; meis rationibus conducit: a city in which the interests of one are the interests of all, respublica, in qua idem conducit omnibus: men have different interests, aliis aliud expedit: to attach one’s self to anybody’s interests, ad alicujus rationes se adjungere: to defend anybody’s interests, alicujus causam defendere: to consult, forward, etc., anybody’s interests, alicujus rationibus consulere, or prospicere, or prospicere et consulere; alicujus commodis servire or non deesse; also, consulere alicui only: he is devoted to your interests, est tui amantissimus: to neglect anybody’s interests, alicujus commoda negligere. To look to (have an eye to, etc.) one’s private interests, servire suo privato commodo: to act in everything with an eye to one’s private interests, omnia metiri emolumentis et commodis; omnia ad utilitatem referre; omnia pecuniae causa facere: to undertake anything against one’s own interests, contra suum commodum aliquid suscipere: not to be led to the commission of an unjust act by any considerations of private interest, nullo emolumento in fraudem impelli (Cic.): to prefer one’s own interests to the good of another, suas rationes alicujus saluti anteponere: to sacrifice one’s private interests to the public good, reipublicae commoda privatis necessitatibus habere potiora: not to divide the interests of the citizens, civium commoda non divellere: to excite a zeal for one’s interests in anybody, allicere atque excitare alicujus studium ad utilitates nostras. (B)

Interest on money, PROPR., usura, or plur. usurae (what is paid for the use of a borrowed sum; hence “interest,” with reference to the borrower who pays): fenus (the profit on a sum lent; hence “interest,” with reference to the lender who receives or is to receive it): impendium (= usura quod in sorte accedit; Varr., L.L., 5, 36, 50, § 183: all three, also, figuratively). Interest upon interest, anatocismus (ἀνατοκισμόσ, Cic., Att., 5, 21, 11 and 12): usurae usurarum (Cod. Just., 4, 32, 28): 5 per cent, (monthly interest), centesimae quinae: one-half per cent, (monthly) interest = 6 per cent, (annually), semisses usurae: 12 per cent., centesimae usurae (= 1 per cent, per month): 12 per cent, compound interest, centesimae renovato in singulos annos fenore (Cic., Att., 6, 3, 5); or centesimae renovatae quotannis; or centesimae actae cum renovatione singulorum annorum (Att., 6, 1, 5): 12 per cent, at simple interest, centesimae perpetuo fenore or centesimae perpetuae. ☞ The Roman interest being monthly, must be multiplied by 12 to turn it into our method of calculating interest; the asses usurae or centesimae usurae being 1 per cent, monthly = 12 per cent, per annum; lower rates will be expressed by the divisions of the as; thus, 11 percent., deunces usurae; 10, dextantes usurae; 9, dodrantes usurae; 8, besses usurae; 7, septantes usurae; 6, semisses usurae; 5, quincunces usurae; 4, quadrantes usurae; 3, trientes usurae: 2, sextantes usurae; 1, unciae usmae; and ☞ for these other forms occur; e.g., fenus ex... (e.g., fenus ex triente, 4 per cent.); or fenus with adjective (fenus unciarium, 1 per cent.); or the sing. or plur. of these substantives, factum erat bessibus (8 per cent.); ut nummi, quos hic quincunce modesto (5 per cent.) nutrieras, pergant avidos sudare deunces (11 percent., Persius). Georges recommends the retention of the Roman forms, adding in singulos annos, to show that ifis not due every month, but every year: it is better, however, to reduce the yearly to the monthly value, as above. To put out money at interest, pecuniam dare fenori or fenore; ponere in fenore nummos (Hor.): to lend money to anybody at interest, pecuniam alicui dare, pecuniam apud aliquem occupare, with or without fenore: to lend money at a high rate of interest, pecuniam grandi fenore occupare: money on which interest is paid, pecunia fenebris: money on which no interest is paid, pecunia gratuita (if lent); pecunia otiosa (which is not lent, and so brings no interest to the possessor): lending money upon interest, feneratio: to offer anybody money for which he is not to pay any interest, pecuniam alicui gratuitam proponere: to borrow money upon interest, pecuniam sumere or accipere fenore: to borrow money at a low rate of interest, and lend it at a high one, pecunias levioribus usuris mutuari et graviori fenore collocare: to lend anybody money, and take no interest for it, pecuniam sine fenore alicui credere or expensum ferre: to refuse to pay either principal or interest, fenus (here = capital) atque impendium recusare (Liv.): to receive interest from anybody, usuram ab aliquo accipere: to pay interest, usuram pendere or solvere; to anybody, alicui fenus dare: to pay down the interest in hard money, pecuniam usuris pernumerare: to pay the capital without interest, pecunias creditas sine usuris solvere: the interest mounts up, usurae multiplicantur: the interest exceeds the capital, mergunt usurae sortem: the rate of interest falls, fenus deminuitur; rises, *fenus augetur: the profits of an estate are hardly sufficient to pay the interest with, fructus praediorum certant cum usuris: the interest is added to the capital, sors fit ex usurā: to add the interest to the capitat, usuram perscribere (☞ Brem., Suet., Caes., 42): a High, a moderately high, a shamefully high rate of interest, grande, tolerabile, iniquissimum fenas: to be ruined by the amount of interest one has to pay, fenore trucidari; impendiis debilitari (Cic., Rep., 2, 30).

IMPROPR., usura: fenus: impendium. The earth always repays with interest whatever it has received, terra numquam sine usura reddit quod accepit (cf., ager reddit semina magno fenore, Tib.): to repay a benefit with interest, beneficium cum usuris reddere; a favor with interest, debitum alicui cumulate reddere: to repay anything with interest, (etiam) cum impendiis augere aliquid (e.g., largitatem tui muneris, Cic.); majore mensura reddere aliquid (Cic.).