dinero

From Spanish dinero (“money”).

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈnɛɹ.oʊ/

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dinero (uncountable)

1. (slang) Money.

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 Venetian 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. Pascual (1984) “dinero”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes 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 Venetian dinaro.

• IPA^(key): /diˈneɾo/ [d̪iˈne.ɾo]

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

dinero m (plural dineros)

1. money

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dinero

2. wealth

   Synonym: riqueza

• → Tanimuca-Retuarã: niñerũ

• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “dinero”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 497

• “dinero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014