English → Latin
“money” in Latin
pecūniamoney; wealth; cash, ready money, liquid wealthargentumsilver (metal, element); a silver thingaesmoney, pay, fee, fare; copper, bronze, brass; payment, debtnummusa coin, piece of moneypretiumworth, price, value, cost; pay, hire, wage; rewardparvussmall; little; puny; cheap; petty; trifling; ignorable; unimportantgrandisfull-grown, grown up; large, great, grand, lofty, big; powerfulingēnshuge, vast, enormous; immoderate, exorbitant; extraordinary, unnaturalmultusmuch; manypaucusfew, little
The English word money itself goes back to Latin monēta.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
money
pecunia (opposed to other property; then any sum of money, never = a single coin; ☞ hence it can be connected only with such adjectives as relate to magnitude; as, magna, parva, grandis, ingens, etc., never with such as relate to unity, as, multa, pauca, etc.): argentum, aes (silver or copper coin; and hence, general term for money: Vid :, for argentum, Ter., Andr., 3, 3, 15, etc.: Liv., 30, 39, extr.; for aes, Ter., Phorm., 3, 2, 26: Cic., Att., 2, 1, 10: Liv., 4, 60, 6; 5, 12, 1. ☞ But argentum signatum and aes signatum only in opposed to argentum, or aes infectum, or factum; Vid: Cic., Varr., 5, 25, 63: Liv., 34, 6, 14, and 34, 52, 4): nummus (a single piece of money, a coin ; ☞ for this only unclassical writers and poets say moneta): pretium (a price in money): Illyrian money, pecunia Illyriorum signo signata: great and small money, nummi omnis notae: good money, nummi probi: bad money, nummi adulterini (☞ not moneta adulterina): of or belonging to money, pecuniarius; nummarius; argentarius: that may be had for money, venalis; pretio venalis: for money, pretio; pretio motus, adductus (induced by a price or reward): fur little, much money, parvo, magno pretio: for money and good words, pretio et precibus: my little bit of money, nummuli mei: a considerable sum of money, aliquantum nummorum: ready money, pecunia praesens, numerata; nummi praesentes, numerati (Cic.); also simply numeratum (Cic.); aurum, argentum, praesentarium (Plaut.): to buy anything for ready money, praesentibus nummis emere aliquid (Sen.): to sell for ready money, solutum aliquid dare (Ulp.); or vendere [Vid: CASH]: to hate plenty of money, in multis suis pecuniis esse, bene nummatum esse, pecunia abundare, opibus or divitiis florere: to make money by anything, pecuniam facere ex re (Nep., Cim., 1, 3): a making of money, pecuniae quaestus; pecuniae via (way and method of making money): the value of money, potestas pecuniarum (Gai., Dig., 13, 3, 4): to turn a thing into money, vendere aliquid (to sell): to take money (as a bribe), pecuniam accipere (opposed to pecuniae resistere): to turn everything into money, omnia in pecuniam redigere (Quint., Decl., 269): to furnish money for anything, pecunias expedire (the proper word; Vid: Bremi, Suet., Caes., 4): to furnish anyone with money, pecuniam alicui curare: to furnish one with money from the public treasury, sumtum alicui dare de publico (Cic., De Invent., 2, 29, init.): to many for money, dote moved (Ter., Heaut., 5, 1, 66): he did not marry for money, indotatum duxit (after Ter., Ad., 3, 2, 47): money makes the man, in pretio pretium nunc est; dat census honores, census amicitias, pauper ubique jacet (Ov., Fast. 1, 217, sq.): pecunia omnium dignitatem exaequat (Cic., Att., 4, 15, 7): want of money, inopia pecunias or rei pecuniariae, inopia argentio or argentaria, inopia nummaria; caritas nummorum (scarcity of money): difficultas nummaria or rei nummariae: angustiae pecuniae (distressing position in respect of money): public want (or scarcity) of money, angustiae pecuniae publicae; angustiae aerarii (of the treasury): to be in want of money, de pecunia laborare; in summa difficultate nummaria esse: times in which there is a general want of money, tempora difficillima solutionis (Cic., Caecin., 4, 11): when there was a great want of money, cum creditae pecuniae non solverentur (Caes., B.C., 3, 1, init.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for money?
- The usual Latin words for “money” are pecūnia, argentum, aes; also nummus, pretium, parvus. 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.