fenus

Latin

Noun

fēnus n (genitive fēnoris); third declension

1. Alternative form of faenus

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fēnus	fēnora
Genitive	fēnoris	fēnorum
Dative	fēnorī	fēnoribus
Accusative	fēnus	fēnora
Ablative	fēnore	fēnoribus
Vocative	fēnus	fēnora

References

• “fenus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fenus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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