The corpus record — Latin

faenĕrārĭus

faenĕrārĭus · m

one who lends money on interest

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What it meant

faenĕrārĭus — Lewis & Short

faenĕrārĭus, ĭi, m.id., for the usual faenerator,

I one who lends money on interest, a usurer, Firm. 3, 8 fin.

2 † faenĕrārĭus (less correctly fēn-, foen-), ĭi, m. faenum, = faenarius, a seller of hay, a hay salesman: macellarios, vinarios, faenerarios, et cellaritas sic servari desideramus, Cassiod. Var. 10, 28 init.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.