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monétaire

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Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mɔ.ne.tɛʁ/[1]

Forms

monétaire (plural monétaires)[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Late Latin monētārius (“of money, monetary”) (5th century),[2][3][4][5] from Latin monēta (“mint; coinage”), the source of the inherited monnaie;[2][1] in classical Latin “monetarius” referred to the mint.[1] Littré also records a noun “monétaire”, the moneyer whose name appeared on Merovingian coins.[6]

Earliest recorded meaning

Charondas le Caron's Pandectes ou Digestes du droit françois (1596) has monétaire “relating to coins”.[2][7]

Semantic evolution

The adjective has always been the technical word for what concerns money, its minting and its value.[2][3] It entered several phrases of economics: système monétaire (1802–1828), masse monétaire (1958), marché monétaire, the serpent monétaire and the Fonds monétaire international.[7][3][8] The 20th century formed monétairement, monétariser (about 1965) and monétarisme (about 1970), and the 1980s monétique.[3]

Timeline

  • 5th century – Late Latin monetarius.[2]
  • 1596 – Monétaire in Charondas le Caron.[2]
  • 1793 – Démonétiser.[3]
  • 1802 – Système monétaire.[7]
  • 1958 – Masse monétaire.[7]
  • c. 1970 – Monétarisme.[3]

Meanings

Adjective

  1. Monetary, relating to money or currency: politique monétaire, unité monétaire, masse monétaire.[8][9]
  2. Relating to the minting of coins: atelier monétaire.[9][10]

Word family

  • monétarisme
  • monétiser
  • démonétiser

References

  1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e f Trésor de la langue française informatisé (2004), ATILF – CNRS & Université de Lorraine, atilf.fr/tlfi; electronic version of Imbs, Paul; Quemada, Bernard, eds. (1971–1994), Trésor de la langue française, Paris: CNRS / Gallimard
  3. ^ a b c d e f Rey, Alain, ed. (1992), Dictionnaire historique de la langue française, Paris: Le Robert
  4. ^ Bloch, Oscar; Wartburg, Walther von (1989), Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue française, 8th ed., Paris: Presses universitaires de France
  5. ^ Wartburg, Walther von, et al. (1922–2002), Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, 25 vols., Bonn / Leipzig / Basel: Klopp / Teubner / Zbinden, p. 6/3, 78a
  6. ^ Littré, Émile (1873–1877), Dictionnaire de la langue française, 4 vols. and supplement, Paris: Hachette
  7. ^ a b c d Guilbert, Louis; Lagane, René; Niobey, Georges, eds. (1971–1978; 1989), Grand Larousse de la langue française, Paris: Larousse
  8. ^ a b Rey-Debove, Josette; Rey, Alain, eds. (2007), Le Petit Robert de la langue française, Paris: Le Robert
  9. ^ a b Dictionnaire de français Larousse, larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais (accessed 2024)
  10. ^ Rey, Alain, ed. (2005), Le Grand Robert de la langue française, electronic version, Paris: Le Robert