The corpus record — Latin

faeneratio

faeneratio · f

a lending on interest

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Where it lives

Pro L. Flacco 1 · 0.92/10k
In C. Verrem 5 · 0.5/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1 · 0.2/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

faenĕrātĭo — Lewis & Short

faenĕrātĭo (less correctly fēn-, foen-), ōnis, f.id.,

I a lending on interest, usury (class.): haec pecunia tota ab honoribus translata est in quaestum et faenerationem, Cic. Fl. 23, 56: nec enim, si tuam ob causam cuiquam commodes, beneficium illud habendum est, sed faeneratio, id. Fin. 2, 35, 117; Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 72, § 168; Col. 1 praef. § 8.

In the wild

faenerationis Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.168
faeneratio Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1.pr.8
faeneratio Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2.117
faeneratio Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.170
faeneratio Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.187
faeneratione Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.170

6 of 8 attestations shown.

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.