money – English noun declension

English noun forms of money

Noun: money
Singularmoney
Pluralmonies; moneys

Sample Sentences

  • I cannot take money that I did not work for.
  • Before colonial times cowry shells imported from Mauritius were used as money in Western Africa.
  • She used to spend money every day on makeup.
  • Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • At the same time, it is pouring money into cleaning up the country. [2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:]
  • money supply; money market
  • You best have some money, cause there ain't no checks or credit here.
  • He was born with money.
  • After his marriage, John made a progress through the country with his beautiful Elizabeth, and they purchased towns and villages and lands until he became master of nearly half Rügen, and a very considerable count in the country. His father, old James Dietrich, was made a noble-man, and his brothers and sisters gentlemen and ladies - for what cannot money do? [1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 313:]
  • He was born into money.
  • He married money.
  • I grew up in Ballybeg, neither of my working-class parents came from money or went to university, so I was part of a working-class family, I assumed. [2023 July 15, Megan Nolan, “‘I grew up on an “estate from hell” but I have no idea what class I am’: novelist Megan Nolan on the conundrum of identity”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Latin Monēta
3. Latin monēta
4. Old French moneie
5. Old French monoie
6. Anglo-Norman muneiebor.
7. Middle English moneye
8. English money
9. From Middle English moneye, moneie, money, borrowed from Anglo-Norman muneie (“money”), from Latin monēta (“money, a place for coining money, coin, mint”), from the name of the temple of Juno Moneta in Rome, where a mint was.
10. In this sense, displaced native Old English feoh, whence English fee. Doublet of mint, ultimately from the same Latin word but through Germanic and Old English, and of manat, through Russian and Azerbaijani or Turkmen. See: Middle English Nouns 'moneye', Latin Nouns 'monēta', English Nouns 'fee'.

Verbs referencing "money"

Finnish Nouns mani, Hungarian Nouns mani, Portuguese Nouns moeda, French Nouns monnaie, Asturian Nouns monis.