moneyer

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman moneour, moneiour, Middle French monnoyeur.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmʌnɪə/

Noun

moneyer (plural moneyers)

  1. (archaic) A moneylender.
  2. (historical) Someone who makes coins; an official minter.
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 350:
      As best they could, the imperial moneyers carved coin dies which imitated the coins of ancient Rome from half a millennium before.
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