moneyer

English

Alternative forms

• monier

Etymology

From Middle English moneyour, partly from Middle English money +‎ -our, and partly from Anglo-Norman monoiier, monneiere, monnier. Equivalent to money +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌnɪə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌniɚ/

Noun

moneyer (plural moneyers)

1. (archaic) Synonym of moneylender, one who loans money to others at interest.
2. A minter: one who makes money, particularly (historical) the superintendent of a mint producing coinage.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 350:

     As best they could, the imperial moneyers carved coin dies which imitated the coins of ancient Rome from half a millennium before.

Synonyms

• coiner, master of the mint, minter, mintkeeper, mintmaster, mint warden

Translations

one who makes money

• French: monnayeur (fr)
• German: Münzmeister
• Latin: monetarius (Med. Lat.)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: myntmester

Middle English

Noun

moneyer

1. Alternative form of moneyour