faeneratio

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

faenĕrātĭo (less correctly fēn-, foen-), ōnis, f. [faeneror],

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; id. Verr. 2, 3, 72, § 168; Col. 1 praef. § 8.

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