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Where does the word "currency" come from? It comes from Latin currens, and was adopted directly into English (1650s).
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Where does the word "currency" come from? It comes from Latin currens, and was adopted directly into English (1650s).
Currency’s story begins in Latin: currens meant “running, flowing.” Running, flowing, from currere (to run), describing money circulating through use. It reached English by 1650s as currency. Settled as the English word for money in circulation. Today, currency means a system of money in general use within a particular country.
- Stage 1 · Latin · ancient currens "running, flowing", running, flowing, from currere (to run), describing money circulating through use.
- Stage 2 · English · 1650s currency "money in circulation within a country", settled as the English word for money in circulation.