moneta

Derived from Latin monēta.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmonɛta]
• Rhymes: -ɛta

moneta f

1. (archaic) coin

   Synonym: mince

• “moneta”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “moneta”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “moneta”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /moˈne.ta/
• Rhymes: -eta
• Hyphenation: mo‧né‧ta

From Latin monēta. Compare Spanish moneda and Portuguese moeda.

moneta f (plural monete)

1. coin
2. currency

   Synonyms: valuta, divisa

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

moneta

1. inflection of monetare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• moneta on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

• a monte, amento, menato, metano, nemato-, nomate, temano

From Monēta, an Italian goddess conflated with Juno after her introduction (cf. evocatio) to Rome in 344 BC. Her temple was used by the Roman mint from 273 BC until it was destroyed by fire and moved to the Colosseum by Domitian in AD 84. The usual derivation—given by Cicero and the Byzantine Suda— is from monēre (“to warn, to advise”) + a variant of -īta, but it is now considered more likely the earlier Italian goddess's name came from a form of Ancient Greek μονήρης (monḗrēs, “solitary, alone, unique”).(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɔˈneː.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [moˈnɛː.t̪a]

monēta f (genitive monētae); first declension

1. mint, a place for coining money
2. money, coinage
3. (Medieval Latin, historical) abbreviation of monētārius (“moneyer, minter”), in its various forms

First-declension noun.

• monētālis
• monētārius

• “moneta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "moneta", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “moneta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “moneta”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
• “moneta”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “moneta”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “mint”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Ultimately from Latin moneta, likely via Polish moneta and/or Russian моне́та (monéta).

monetà f (plural monetos) stress pattern 2

1. coin (a piece of currency)

   mokėti monetomis ― to pay with coins

• “moneta”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
• “moneta”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2025

Learned borrowing from Latin monēta. Doublet of manat and mennica (“mint”).

• IPA^(key): /mɔˈnɛ.ta/

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• Rhymes: -ɛta
• Syllabification: mo‧ne‧ta

moneta f (diminutive monetka)

1. coin (a piece of currency)

• → Lithuanian: moneta
• → Russian: монета (moneta), моне́т (monét) — obsolete vernacular form
  • → Armenian: մանեթ (manetʻ)
  • → Azerbaijani: manat
  • →? Finnish: moni (obsolete, Helsinki slang)
  • → Georgian: მანეთი (maneti)
  • → Ingrian: monetta
  • → Karakalpak: manat
  • → Kazakh: мәнет (mänet)
  • → Persian: منات (manât)
  • → Turkmen: manat
  • → Yakut: манньыат (mannyıat)
  • → Abkhaz: амааҭ (amaat)
• → Yiddish: מאָנעטע (monete)

• moneta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• moneta in Polish dictionaries at PWN