Money is what you pay with — coins, notes, or numbers moving between accounts. Earn money, spend money, no money left.
It is uncountable, which is the single most important fact about it for a learner: a money and moneys are both wrong in ordinary English, and the countable words are coins, notes, amounts and sums. Make money is the standard collocation for earning it, not do money or gain money. Note the enormous set of fixed phrases — money for old rope, money talks, put your money where your mouth is — and that the plural monies exists only in legal and accounting writing.
1nounmoneyCoins, notes and their electronic equivalent, used to buy things.~95%
“There is no money in the account until Friday.”
2nounwealthWealth.~5%
“There is money in that family and always has been.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 22 sentences found in the wild and placed 22 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
money is a means of payment.
Latin moneta was a title of the goddess Juno, in whose temple the Roman mint stood — so money is named after a building, which was named after a goddess, whose title meant the one who warns. Mint comes from the same word.
Proto-Indo-European
*men- (think)
Middle English
moneye
English, today
money
From Middle English moneye. From Middle English moneye, moneie, money, borrowed from Anglo-Norman muneie (“money”), from Latin monēta (“money, a place for coining money, coin, mint”), from the name of the temple of Juno Moneta in Rome, where a mint was. In this sense, displaced native feoh, whence English fee. a doublet of mint, ultimately from the same Latin word but through Germanic and Old English, and of manat, through Russian and Azerbaijani or Turkmen.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA