monétaire French · revision 15956

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1596, Charondas le Caron|origins=la monēta}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /mɔ.ne.tɛʁ/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''monétaire''' (plural monétaires)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la-lat|monētārius|t=of money, monetary]] (5th century),^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(FEW|6/3, 78a) from [[la|monēta|t=mint; coinage]], the source of the inherited [[monnaie]];^(TLFi)^(Wiktionary) in classical Latin “monetarius” referred to the mint.^(Wiktionary) Littré also records a noun “monétaire”, the moneyer whose name appeared on Merovingian coins.^(Littré 1873)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Charondas le Caron's ''Pandectes ou Digestes du droit françois'' (1596) has ''monétaire'' “relating to coins”.^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The adjective has always been the technical word for what concerns money, its minting and its value.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) It entered several phrases of economics: ''système monétaire'' (1802–1828), ''masse monétaire'' (1958), ''marché monétaire'', the ''serpent monétaire'' and the ''Fonds monétaire international''.^(GLLF 1989)^(DHLF 1992)^(Petit Robert 2007) The 20th century formed ''monétairement'', ''monétariser'' (about 1965) and ''monétarisme'' (about 1970), and the 1980s ''monétique''.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 5th century – Late Latin ''monetarius''.^(TLFi)

+ * 1596 – ''Monétaire'' in Charondas le Caron.^(TLFi)

+ * 1793 – ''Démonétiser''.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1802 – ''Système monétaire''.^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 1958 – ''Masse monétaire''.^(GLLF 1989)

+ * c. 1970 – ''Monétarisme''.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|monetary|alt=Monetary]], relating to money or currency: ''politique monétaire'', ''unité monétaire'', ''masse monétaire''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Larousse)

+ # Relating to the minting of coins: ''atelier monétaire''.^(Larousse)^(Grand Robert 2005)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[monétarisme]]

+ * [[monétiser]]

+ * [[démonétiser]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[monnaie]]

+ * [[la|monēta]]

+ * [[en|monetary]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}