dinero

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

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈnɛɹ.oʊ/

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dinero (uncountable)

1. (slang) Money.

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

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.

• IPA^(key): /diˈneɾo/

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

• Spanish: dinero

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

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.

• IPA^(key): /diˈneɾo/ [d̪iˈne.ɾo]

• Audio (Colombia):

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

dinero m (plural dineros)

1. money

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dinero

   • 2024 October 20, EFE, “Nueva caravana migrante con miles de personas sale de la frontera sur de México hacia Estados Unidos”, in CNN en Español‎^[1]:

     Gilberto Herrero Mejía, otro migrante proveniente de Venezuela, denunció que en su país la situación es crítica y el dinero no alcanza para nada, pues en su caso, se dedicaba a manejar un autobús con un sueldo de 10 a 15 dólares, lo cual era insuficiente para poder sobrevivir.

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2. wealth

   Synonym: riqueza

• → Tanimuca-Retuarã: niñerũ

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

• “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], 10 December 2024