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Money

3 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means a medium of exchange, such as coins or banknotes
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Stage 1 of 3
Moneta
Latin · ancient
"a title of the goddess Juno"
an epithet of the goddess Juno, near whose Roman temple coins were minted
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Stage 2 of 3
moneie
Old French · medieval
"coined currency"
carried into French for coined currency
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Stage 3 of 3
money
English · 1200s
"currency used as a medium of exchange"
settled as the English word for currency used in exchange
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