moneyerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌnɪə/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌniɚ/

名詞

moneyer (複数形 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.

同意語

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