as

assis (genitive)
as (nominative singular)
assēs (nominative plural)
assis (genitive singular)
assium (genitive plural)
assum (genitive plural)
assī (dative singular)
assibus (dative plural)
assem (accusative singular)
assēs (accusative plural)
assīs (accusative plural)
asse (ablative singular)
assibus (ablative plural)
as (singular vocative)
assēs (plural vocative)

Catalan: as

desctree

Old French: as
Middle French: as
French: as (see there for further descendants)
→ Middle Dutch: aes
Dutch: aas
Afrikaans: aas
→ Middle English: as
English: ace (see there for further descendants)
Scots: ace

Italian: asso, asse

Portuguese: ás, asse

Sicilian: asu

Spanish: as

→ English: as

→ Polish: as

Probably borrowed from Etruscan: compare lībra and nummus, also loanwords. Original meaning was 'a rectangular bronze plaque weighing a pound'.

as; a Roman coin originally made of bronze and weighing one pound, but later made of copper and reduced to two ounces, one ounce, and eventually half an ounce.

a penny, a copper (any coin of similarly low value)

any undivided unit of measurement
(with ex) a whole estate

any undivided unit of measurement
a whole estate


bes

la-noun

bes m (genitive bessis); third declension

bessis (genitive)
bes (nominative singular)
bessēs (nominative plural)
bessis (genitive singular)
bessium (genitive plural)
bessī (dative singular)
bessibus (dative plural)
bessem (accusative singular)
bessēs (accusative plural)
bessīs (accusative plural)
besse (ablative singular)
bessibus (ablative plural)
bes (singular vocative)
bessēs (plural vocative)

From a derivative of *duō (“two”) (compare bis) + as.


mo

(Medieval Latin, historical) Abbreviation of monētārius (moneyer, minter) in its various forms.


solidus

solidus m (genitive solidī); second declension

solidī (genitive)
solidus (nominative singular)
solidī (nominative plural)
solidī (genitive singular)
solidōrum (genitive plural)
solidō (dative singular)
solidīs (dative plural)
solidum (accusative singular)
solidōs (accusative plural)
solidō (ablative singular)
solidīs (ablative plural)
solide (singular vocative)
solidī (plural vocative)

Balkan Romance:

Romanian: solz

Gallo-Italic:

Piedmontese: sòld

Ibero-Romance:

Portuguese: soldo

Spanish: sueldo

Italo-Romance:

Dalmatian: suald (“cent”)

Italian: soldo (“cent”)

→ English: soldo

desc

→ Middle French: solde, soulde (“balance”)

French: solde (“pay”)

→ English: sold

→ Neapolitan: sordo

→? Sicilian: sordu

Òc:

Catalan: sou

Occitan: sòu

Oïl:

Old French: solt

French: sou, sol

→ English: sou

→ English: sol

→ Middle High German: solt

German: Sold

→ Czech: žold

→ Hungarian: zsold

→ Polish: żołd

Early borrowings:

→ Proto-Brythonic: *solt

Old Breton: solt

Breton: saout (“livestock”)

Old Cornish: sols

Cornish: zowlz

Old Welsh: swllt (“shilling”)

Welsh: swllt

Later borrowings:

→ English: solidus

→ Portuguese: sólido

→ Romanian: solid

→ Spanish: sólido

[ˈs̠ɔlʲɪd̪ʊs̠]

From Proto-Italic *soliðos, from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂-i-dʰ-o-s (“entire”), suffixed form of root *solh₂- (“integrate, whole”).

A solidus: a Roman ~23-carat gold coin introduced by Diocletian in AD 301.


follis

la-noun

follis m (genitive follis); third declension

follis (genitive)
follis (nominative singular)
follēs (nominative plural)
follis (genitive singular)
follium (genitive plural)
follī (dative singular)
follibus (dative plural)
follem (accusative singular)
follēs (accusative plural)
follīs (accusative plural)
folle (ablative singular)
follibus (ablative plural)
follis (singular vocative)
follēs (plural vocative)

Eastern Romance

Aromanian: foali

Istro-Romanian: foie

Megleno-Romanian: foali

Romanian: foale

Italo-Romance

Italian: folle

Sicilian: foḍḍi

Old French: fol (see there for further descendants)

French: fou

Norman: fo

Old Occitan: fol
Occitan: hòu, fòl, fòu

Sardinian: fodhe

Venetian: folo, foło, fol

West Iberian

Asturian: fuelle

Old Galician-Portuguese:

Galician: fol

Portuguese: fole

Spanish: follar, hollar, fuelle

→ Alemannic German: Folle

→ Proto-Brythonic: *foll

Middle Welsh: ffoll

→ Ancient Greek: φόλλις (phóllis)

→ Aramaic: ܦܘܠܣܐ / פולסא /ܦܠܣ / פילס (fuləsā, filas)

→ Arabic: فِلْس (fils) (see there for further descendants)

→ English: follis

Probably inherited from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolǵʰ-n-is, o-grade i-stem derivative of *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell”) with an *-n- suffix (though De Vaan is skeptical of any etymology and leaves the origin open). Cognates include Sanskrit बर्हिस् (barhís, “straw, sacrificial straw”), Old English belġ (“bulge, bag, purse”) (English belly) and belġan (“to swell with anger”), Old Prussian balsinis (“cushion”) and Old Irish bolg (“belly; bag; bellows”).
Or simply from Proto-Indo-European *bʰol-n-is, ultimately from the same root, i.e. *bʰel- (“to blow”), from which *bʰelǵʰ- appears to be derived.


sestertius

la-noun

sēstertius m (genitive sēstertiī or sēstertī); second declension

sēstertius (canonical masculine)
sēstertiī (genitive)
sēstertī (genitive)
sēstertius (nominative singular)
sēstertiī (nominative plural)
sēstertiī (genitive singular)
sēstertī (genitive singular)
sēstertiōrum (genitive plural)
sēstertiō (dative singular)
sēstertiīs (dative plural)
sēstertium (accusative singular)
sēstertiōs (accusative plural)
sēstertiō (ablative singular)
sēstertiīs (ablative plural)
sēstertie (singular vocative)
sēstertiī (plural vocative)

Catalan: sesterci

→ English: sesterce

→ Finnish: sestertius

Italian: sesterzio

Portuguese: sestércio

Spanish: sestercio

From sēmis (“half”) + tertius (“third”), due to its value in asses.

sesterce (small coin worth 2 and a half asses, later 4 asses)


denarius

dēnārius m (genitive dēnāriī or dēnārī); second declension

dēnārius (canonical masculine)
dēnāriī (genitive)
dēnārī (genitive)
dēnārius (nominative singular)
dēnāriī (nominative plural)
dēnāriī (genitive singular)
dēnārī (genitive singular)
dēnāriōrum (genitive plural)
dēnāriō (dative singular)
dēnāriīs (dative plural)
dēnārium (accusative singular)
dēnāriōs (accusative plural)
dēnāriō (ablative singular)
dēnāriīs (ablative plural)
dēnārie (singular vocative)
dēnāriī (plural vocative)

Italo-Romance:

Corsican: dinaru

Italian: denaro, danaro, danaio

Neapolitan: denaro

Sicilian: dinaru

North Italian:

Friulian: denâr

Romansch: denar, daner

Venetian: danaro

Gallo-Romance:

desctree

Old French: denier
Middle French: denier
French: denier
→ English: denier

Old Occitan: denier

Provençal: denié

Ibero-Romance:

>? Mirandese: denheiro

Ancient borrowings:

→ Ancient Greek: δηνάριον (dēnárion) (see there for further descendants)

→ Proto-Brythonic: *dinėr (see there for further descendants)

North Italian

Old Lombard: dinaro

Old Venetian: dinaro

Gallo-Romance:

Catalan: diner

Gascon: dinèr

Occitan: dinièr (Languedoc)

Ibero-Romance:

Aragonese: dinero

Asturian: dineru

Mirandese: denheiro

Old Galician-Portuguese: dĩeiro, dỹeiro

Galician: diñeiro

Portuguese: dinheiro

Old Spanish: dinero
Spanish: dinero

→ Aragonese: denario

→ Asturian: denariu

→ Catalan: denari

→ English: denarius

→ Esperanto: denaro

→ French: dénaire

→ Galician: denario

→ German: Denar

→ Italian: denario

→ Middle English: denarie

English: denary

→ Polish: denar

→ Portuguese: denário

→ Romanian: denar

→ Slovene: denar

→ Spanish: denario

Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico

denarius (due to a single coin's value of 10 asses, each made of silver.)


capito

la-noun

capitō m (genitive capitōnis); third declension

capitō (canonical masculine)
capitōnis (genitive)
capitō (nominative singular)
capitōnēs (nominative plural)
capitōnis (genitive singular)
capitōnum (genitive plural)
capitōnī (dative singular)
capitōnibus (dative plural)
capitōnem (accusative singular)
capitōnēs (accusative plural)
capitōne (ablative singular)
capitōnibus (ablative plural)
capitō (singular vocative)
capitōnēs (plural vocative)

Italian: capitone, cavedano, cavedine

From the oblique stem of caput (“head”) + -ō (suffix forming related nouns)

suffix

(Medieval Latin) a kind of silver coinage under Louis XII of France


nummus

la-noun

nummus m (genitive nummī); second declension

nummī (genitive)
nummus (nominative singular)
nummī (nominative plural)
nummī (genitive singular)
nummum (genitive plural)
nummōrum (genitive plural)
nummō (dative singular)
nummīs (dative plural)
nummum (accusative singular)
nummōs (accusative plural)
nummō (ablative singular)
nummīs (ablative plural)
numme (singular vocative)
nummī (plural vocative)

From νοῦμμος (noûmmos), Doric version of Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos). Compare with numerus, from the same root.


siclus

siclus m (genitive siclī); second declension

siclī (genitive)
siclus (nominative singular)
siclī (nominative plural)
siclī (genitive singular)
siclōrum (genitive plural)
siclō (dative singular)
siclīs (dative plural)
siclum (accusative singular)
siclōs (accusative plural)
siclō (ablative singular)
siclīs (ablative plural)
sicle (singular vocative)
siclī (plural vocative)

→ Catalan: sicle

→ English: sicle

→ French: sicle

→ Italian: siclo

→ Portuguese: siclo

→ Spanish: siclo

[ˈs̠ɪkɫ̪ʊs̠]

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew שֶׁקֶל (šɛ́qɛl).


raudus

la-noun

raudus n (genitive raudoris); third declension

raudoris (genitive)
raudus (nominative singular)
raudera (nominative plural)
rauderis (genitive singular)
rauderum (genitive plural)
rauderī (dative singular)
rauderibus (dative plural)
raudus (accusative singular)
raudera (accusative plural)
raudere (ablative singular)
rauderibus (ablative plural)
raudus (singular vocative)
raudera (plural vocative)

[ˈräu̯d̪ʊs̠]

Uncertain. Traditionally derived from either of the Proto-Indo-European roots *(h₃)rew-d- (“to tear up, dig up”) or *gʰrew-d- (“gravel, stone”), along with rūdus (“debris, rubble”) and rudis (“rough, raw”); modern scholars however tend to deem this phonetically impossible. Rather, to be considered a substrate word and compared with Proto-West Germanic *arut (“ore”), along with perhaps Sumerian 𒍏 (urud, “copper”).


simbella

simbella f (genitive simbellae); first declension

simbellae (genitive)
simbella (nominative singular)
simbellae (nominative plural)
simbellae (genitive singular)
simbellārum (genitive plural)
simbellae (dative singular)
simbellīs (dative plural)
simbellam (accusative singular)
simbellās (accusative plural)
simbellā (ablative singular)
simbellīs (ablative plural)
simbella (singular vocative)
simbellae (plural vocative)

[s̠ɪmˈbɛlːʲä]

Contraction of sēmilībella, from sēmi- (“half”) + lībella (“kind of coin”). Compare sinciput.


monetarius

la-noun

monētārius m (genitive monētāriī or monētārī); second declension

monētārius (canonical masculine)
monētāriī (genitive)
monētārī (genitive)
monētārius (nominative singular)
monētāriī (nominative plural)
monētāriī (genitive singular)
monētārī (genitive singular)
monētāriōrum (genitive plural)
monētāriō (dative singular)
monētāriīs (dative plural)
monētārium (accusative singular)
monētāriōs (accusative plural)
monētāriō (ablative singular)
monētāriīs (ablative plural)
monētārie (singular vocative)
monētāriī (plural vocative)

From monēta (“mint, money”) + -ārius (“-ary: forming adjectives”), from the presence of the Roman mint at the Templum Iunonis Monetae (“Temple of Juno Moneta”) from 273 BC to AD 84, q.v.

suffix

(Medieval Latin, historical) Moneyer, the operator of a mint.