monnaie French · revision 15659

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=1170, Chrétien de Troyes (monoie)|origins=la moneō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /mɔ.nɛ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''monnaie''' ''f'' (plural monnaies)^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French ''monoie'', ''moneie'', ''monnoie'', ''monnoye'' (still in the 17th century); ''monnaie'' from 1549, usual only from the 18th century.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|fro|monoie]], [[inh|la|monēta|t=mint; coined money]].^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Wiktionary)^(FEW|6/3, 74a) ''Monēta'' was first a surname of Juno, Juno Moneta, and coins were struck in or beside her temple on the Capitol, so the name passed to the mint and then to the money made there.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Littré 1873)^(Petit Robert 2007) The surname is usually explained from [[m|la|moneō|t=to warn]], Juno having warned the Romans of an earthquake;^(GLLF 1989)^(Petit Robert 2007) the Grand Robert reports that some take this for a popular etymology and the word for Phoenician.^(Grand Robert 2005) Livius Andronicus used the name “Moneta” to render the Greek [[grc|Μνημοσύνη|tr=Mnēmosúnē]].^(DHLF 1992)

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+ Cognate with [[it|moneta]], [[es|moneda]], [[pt|moeda]] and [[en|money]].^(REW 1935)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Chrétien de Troyes (''Érec'', 1170) uses ''monoie'' for money, and in ''Perceval'' (1181–1190) for coins struck by a sovereign authority.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ By metonymy it meant the right to coin money (about 1245) and the mint itself (1671), as in the Hôtel de la Monnaie in Paris.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) ''Fausse monnaie'' “counterfeit money” is from the late 13th century, also figuratively, and ''payer en même monnaie'' “to pay back in kind” from 1653.^(TLFi)

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+ ''Petite monnaie'' “small coins” is from Oresme (1365) and, from the end of the 14th century, ''monnaie'' is the change given for a coin or note: ''faire la monnaie de''.^(TLFi)^(Petit Robert 2007) Economics made it the currency of a country.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1170 – ''Monoie'' “money”.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1181–1190 – Coin (''Perceval'').^(TLFi)

+ * c. 1245 – The right of coinage.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1365 – ''Petite monnoie'' (Oresme).^(TLFi)

+ * late 14th century – Change for a coin (Froissart).^(TLFi)

+ * 1549 – The spelling ''monnaie''.^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 1671 – The mint.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|change|alt=Change]], coins: ''rendre la monnaie''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|currency]].^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A coin; coinage.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''La Monnaie'': the [[m|en|mint]].^(Petit Robert 2007)^(TLFi)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[monnayer]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[monétaire]]

+ * [[monétiser]]

+ * [[argent]]

+ * [[la|monēta]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}