monetary

English

Etymology

From Middle French monétaire, from Late Latin monētārius (“pertaining to money”), from Latin monētārius (“of a mint”), from monēta (“mint, coinage”), from the presence—from 273 BC to AD 84—of the chief Roman mint at the Templum Iunonis Monetae (“Temple of Juno Moneta”), q.v. Doublet of minter.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌnɪt(ə)ɹi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑnɪtɛɹi/, /ˈmʌnətɛɹi/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈman.ə.teː.ɹi/

Adjective

monetary (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, or consisting of money.

   Although of little monetary value, Rosie treasured her late grandfather's old hunting gear.

   • 2019, Emerson Kathy Lynn, How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries:

     Wondering how else he passed his time, Winifred surveyed the room again, this time without regard for the monetary value of the things she saw. A box of lutestrings. Five songbooks. But no lute.

   • 2022, Jason Whittaker, Elizabeth Potter, Bodies, Noise and Power in Industrial Music, page 62:

     The song is set in a "red room," a likely fiction, urban legend space of torture and death. Being urban legend, details can differ, but consistent within the mythos of the “red room” is its existence on the “deep web” and crowd involvement—likely with a monetary cost—to decide how the person will be tortured and killed.

Derived terms

• monetarily
• monetary impotence
• monetary instrument
• monetary policy
• monetary unit
• non-monetary

Related terms

• mint
• monetarism
• monetarist
• money

 

Translations

of or relating to money

• Afrikaans: monetêr
• Arabic: نَقْدِيّ (naqdiyy), مَالِيّ (māliyy)
• Armenian: դրամական (hy) (dramakan)
• Belarusian: валю́тны (valjútny), грашавы́ (hrašavý)
• Bulgarian: пари́чен (paríčen), валу́тен (valúten)
• Catalan: monetari (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貨幣 / 货币 (zh) (huòbì)

• Czech: peněžní (cs)
• Danish: monetær
• Dutch: geld- (nl), geldelijk (nl), monetair (nl)
• Esperanto: mona (eo)
• Finnish: raha-, rahallinen (fi), monetaarinen (fi)
• French: monétaire (fr)
• Galician: monetario m
• Georgian: ფულადი (puladi)
• German: Geld- (de), geldlich (de), finanziell (de), pekuniär (de), monetär (de)
• Greek: χρηματικός (el) m (chrimatikós), νομισματικός (el) m (nomismatikós)
• Hungarian: pénzügyi (hu), monetáris (hu)
• Indonesian: moneter (id)
• Irish: airgeadúil, airgeadaíochta
• Italian: monetario (it)
• Japanese: 貨幣の (ja) (かへいの, kahei no), 金銭的な (きんせんてきな, kinsenteki na)
• Korean: 화폐(貨幣) (ko) (hwapye)
• Latin: monetarius, monetalis
• Macedonian: паричен (paričen), монета́рен (monetáren)
• Malay: مونيتاري (monétari)
• Manx: argidoil
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: monetær

• Persian: پولی (fa) (puli), مالی (fa) (mâli)
• Polish: monetarny (pl), pieniężny (pl), walutowy (pl)
• Portuguese: monetário (pt)
• Romanian: monetar (ro), bănesc (ro)
• Russian: де́нежный (ru) (dénežnyj), валю́тный (ru) (valjútnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: но̀вчанӣ

  Roman: nòvčanī (sh)

• Slovak: peňažný
• Slovene: denaren, monetaren
• Spanish: monetario (es)
• Swedish: monetär (sv), penning- (sv)
• Turkish: parasal (tr)
• Ukrainian: валю́тний (uk) (valjútnyj), грошови́й (hrošovýj), гроше́вий (hrošévyj)
• Welsh: ariannol (cy)
• Zazaki: perevi

Further reading

• “monetary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “monetary”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “monetary”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• myronate, naometry