dinero

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish dinero (“money”). Doublet of denar, denarius, denier, dinar, diner, and dinheiro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈnɛɹ.oʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

dinero (uncountable)

1. (slang) Money.

Anagrams

• Indore, dronie, ride-on, Nordie, inrode, roined, Dornie, ironed

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *dīnārius, an alteration of Latin dēnārius. Coromines and Pascual explain the /i/ as the result of influence from Byzantine Greek δηνάριον (dinárion). Compare Portuguese dinheiro, Catalan diner, Old Venetan dinaro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diˈneɾo/

Noun

dinero m

1. coin
   • 1300 – 1330, anonymous, Fuero Navarra (BNM ms. 248) 20:

     Et si fueren cabras o oueyllas una o .ij^os. ata .ix^e. deuen por cada pie un dinero.

     And if it's goats or sheep, one or two up to nine, they owe a coin for every trotter.

2. (in the plural) money
   • 1140 – 1207, anonymous, Cid 3734-3735:

     ſi nõ tenedes din͠os / echad ala vnos peños
     (modernized spelling) Si non tenedes dineros, echad allá unos peños

     If you don't have money, throw some belongings there

Descendants

• Spanish: dinero

References

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “dinero”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 497

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish dinero, from Vulgar Latin *dīnārius, an alteration of Latin dēnārius. Coromines and Pascual explain the /i/ as the result of influence from Byzantine Greek δηνάριον (dinárion). Compare Portuguese dinheiro, Catalan diner, Old Venetan dinaro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diˈneɾo/ [d̪iˈne.ɾo]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: di‧ne‧ro

Noun

dinero m (plural dineros)

1. money

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dinero

2. wealth

   Synonym: riqueza

Derived terms

• a dinero
• adinerado
• adinerar
• al dinero
• buen dinero
• cagar dinero
• dinerada
• dineral
• dinerario
• dinerillo (diminutive)
• dinerito (diminutive)
• dinero a interés
• dinero al contado
• dinero contante
• dinero de plástico
• dinero en tabla
• dinero negro
• dinero plástico
• dineroso
• dineruelo
• hacer dinero
• lavado de dinero
• pasar el dinero
• poderoso caballero es don dinero
• sacadineros

 

Related terms

• pecuniario

 

Descendants

• → Tanimuca-Retuarã: niñerũ

References

• Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “dinero”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 497

Further reading

• “dinero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10