faenerator

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

faenĕrātor (less correctly fēn-, foen-), ōris, m. [faeneror],

one who lends on interest , a money-lender , capitalist; with an odious secondary idea, a usurer (class.): improbantur ii quaestus, qui in odia hominum incurrunt, ut portitorum, ut faeneratorum, Cic. Off. 1, 42, 150; Cato R. R. praef. § 1; Sall. C. 33, 1; Cic. Fam. 5, 6, 2; Hor. Epod. 2, 67; Suet. Tib. 48: acerbissimi, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 6.

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