- foeneratio
- faenĕrātĭo (less correctly fēn-, foen- ), ōnis, f. [id.], a lending on interest, usury (class.):
haec pecunia tota ab honoribus translata est in quaestum et faenerationem,
Cic. Fl. 23, 56:nec enim, si tuam ob causam cuiquam commodes, beneficium illud habendum est, sed faeneratio,
id. Fin. 2, 35, 117; id. Verr. 2, 3, 72, § 168; Col. 1 praef. § 8.
Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary, 1879. - Revised, Enlarged, and in Great Part Rewritten. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and Charles Short. 2011.