currency.
Money or other items used to facilitate transactions.
Meaning & usage
Money or other items used to facilitate transactions.
Wampum was used as a currency by Amerindians.
Paper money.
The state of being current; general acceptance, recognition or use.
The jargon’s currency.
Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
Fluency; readiness of utterance.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- Proto-Indo-European *-éti Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥séti Proto-Italic *korzō Latin currō Proto-Indo-European *-onts Latin -ns Latin currēns Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Medieval Latin currentiabor. English currency Borrowed from Medieval Latin currentia. By surface analysis, current + -cy.
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