Etymology: Origin of the word Finance
Meaning
The word finance has different but interrelated meanings, namely, 1) the management of large amounts of money -specially by governments or large companies, 2) giving monetary suport for an enterprise and 3) the monetary resources and affairs of a State, organization or person.
Etymology
Financius, from the noun finis (“end”) is the Latin etymological origin of the modern English word Finance.
It migrated from Latin to old French as finaunce, from finer (“to pay a ransom”), whence also English fine (“to pay a penalty”).
In fact, the original English sense was “ending”. The sense “ending/satisfying a debt” came from French influence.
So in the mid 15th century the sense was “ransom”, and later in the same century, “taxation”.
It was first recorded in the sense of managing money in 1770.
1- Old French: Fin
2- Old French: Finer English: Fine
3- Late Middle English: Finance
Finance in Many languages
Language | Ways to say finance |
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Albanian | financë |
Basque | Finantzaketa |
Belarusian | фінансы |
Bosnian | finansije |
Bulgarian | финанси |
Catalan | finances |
Croatian | financije |
Czech | finance |
Danish | finans |
Dutch | financiën |
Estonian | rahandus |
Finnish | rahoittaa |
French | financement |
Galician | finanzas |
German | Finanzen |
Greek | Οικονομικών |
Hungarian | pénzügy |
Icelandic | fjármál |
Irish | airgeadas |
Italian | finanza |
Latvian | finanses |
Lithuanian | finansai |
Macedonian | финансии |
Maltese | finanzi |
Norwegian | finans |
Polish | finanse |
Portuguese | finanças |
Romanian | finanțe |
Russian | финансы |
Serbian | финансије |
Slovak | financie |
Slovenian | finance |
Spanish | finanzas |
Swedish | finans |
Ukrainian | фінанси |
Welsh | cyllid |
Yiddish | פינאַנצן |
Saying Finance in Asian Languages
Language | Ways to say finance |
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Armenian | ֆինանսներ |
Azerbaijani | maliyyə |
Bengali | অন্যদের |
Chinese Simplified | 财政 |
Chinese Traditional | 財政 |
Georgian | ფინანსთა |
Gujarati | નાણા |
Hindi | वित्त |
Hmong | hais txog nyiaj txiag |
Japanese | ファイナンス |
Kannada | ಹಣಕಾಸು |
Kazakh | қаржы |
Khmer | ហិរញ្ញវត្ថុ |
Korean | 재원 |
Lao | ທາງດ້ານການເງິນ |
Malayalam | ധനകാര്യ |
Marathi | अर्थ |
Mongolian | санхүү |
Myanmar (Burmese) | ဘဏ္ဍာရေး |
Nepali | वित्त |
Sinhala | මූල්ය |
Tajik | молия |
Tamil | நிதி |
Telugu | ఫైనాన్స్ |
Thai | การเงิน |
Urdu | خزانہ |
Uzbek | moliya |
Vietnamese | tài chánh |
Saying Finance in Middle-Eastern Languages
Language | Ways to say finance |
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Arabic | تمويل |
Hebrew | מימון |
Persian | امور مالی |
Turkish | maliye |
Saying Finance in African Languages
Language | Ways to say finance |
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Afrikaans | finansies |
Chichewa | zachuma |
Hausa | finance |
Igbo | ego |
Sesotho | tsa ditjhelete |
Somali | Maaliyadda |
Swahili | fedha |
Yoruba | Isuna |
Zulu | ezezimali |
Saying Finance in Austronesian Languages
Language | Ways to say finance |
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Cebuano | finance |
Filipino | pananalapi |
Indonesian | keuangan |
Javanese | finance |
Malagasy | bola |
Malay | kewangan |
Maori | pūtea |
Saying Finance in Other Foreign Languages
Language | Ways to say finance |
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Esperanto | financoj |
Haitian Creole | finans |
Latin | oeconomicis |
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