Latin

Noun

fēnus n ‎(genitive fēnoris); third declension

1. Alternative form of faenus

Inflection

Third declension neuter.

References

• fenus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fenus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to lend some one money (without interest): pecuniam alicui credere (sine fenore, usuris)
    
  • to lend, borrow money at interest: pecuniam fenori (fenore) alicui dare, accipere ab aliquo
    
  • to put out money at interest: pecuniam fenore occupare (Flacc. 21. 54)
    
  • the rate of interest has gone up from 4 per cent to 8 per cent: fenus ex triente Id. Quint. factum erat bessibus (Att. 4. 15. 7)
    
  • simple interests: perpetuum fenus (Att. 5. 21. 13)
    
  • compound interest: fenus renovatum
    
  • exorbitant rate of interest: fenus iniquissimum, grande, grave
    
• fenus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fenus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin