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pecuniar

pecuniar adjective: pecuniary.

Adjective

pecuniar (comparative more pecuniar, superlative most pecuniar)

  1. (obsolete) Pecuniary.
    • [T]he last two years of my life might have passed tranquilly not embittered by pecuniar cares […].c. 1790, Mary Wollstonecraft, edited by Janet Todd, Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft, Columbia University Press, published 2003, page 183

Forms of pecuniar

comparativemore pecuniar
superlativemost pecuniar

Origin of pecuniar

From Anglo-Norman pecunier, Middle French pécunier, alteration of pecuniaire, from Latin pecūniārius.

Questions about pecuniar

What does pecuniar mean?
Pecuniar means pecuniary.
What part of speech is pecuniar?
Pecuniar is an adjective.

Words near pecuniar in the dictionary

  1. peculiarsome
  2. peculiary
  3. peculium
  4. peculs
  5. pecunial
  6. pecuniar
  7. pecuniarily
  8. pecuniary
  9. pecuniary unit
  10. pecuniary units
  11. pecuniosity

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