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revenue
/ˈrɛvənjuː/income returning from business or property
From Latin re- (back) + Latin venire (to come).
from Latin revenire "return, come back,"
+1 more sourcefrom Latin revenire "return, come back,"
+1 more sourcefrom Old French revenue "a return," noun use of fem. past participle of revenir "come back" (10c.)
+1 more sourcefrom Old French revenue "a return," noun use of fem. past participle of revenir "come back" (10c.)
+1 more sourcefrom Old French revenue "a return," noun use of fem. past participle of revenir "come back" (10c.)
+1 more sourceWord Ancestry
from Latin revenire "return, come back,"
+1 more sourcefrom Latin revenire "return, come back,"
+1 more sourcefrom Old French revenue "a return," noun use of fem. past participle of revenir "come back" (10c.)
+1 more sourcefrom Old French revenue "a return," noun use of fem. past participle of revenir "come back" (10c.)
+1 more sourcefrom Old French revenue "a return," noun use of fem. past participle of revenir "come back" (10c.)
+1 more sourceMoney has a funny habit of coming back dressed as a noun. In Old French, revenue was literally a 'return' — the past participle of revenir, 'to come back' — and English borrowed it in the 1400s to mean income that keeps reappearing from land, rents, or investments. That makes it a cousin of return, revert, and even revenue-sharing, where the whole idea is that cash has made a round trip and landed in a ledger instead of a suitcase. By the 1680s, the word had grown official enough to describe a government's tax take, which is a deliciously bureaucratic way of saying: what the state gets when money comes home. Revenue is basically return with a bank account and a badge.
The Story
Money has a funny habit of coming back dressed as a noun. In Old French, revenue was literally a 'return' — the past participle of revenir, 'to come back' — and English borrowed it in the 1400s to mean income that keeps reappearing from land, rents, or investments. That makes it a cousin of return, revert, and even revenue-sharing, where the whole idea is that cash has made a round trip and landed in a ledger instead of a suitcase. By the 1680s, the word had grown official enough to describe a government's tax take, which is a deliciously bureaucratic way of saying: what the state gets when money comes home. Revenue is basically return with a bank account and a badge.
Kin & Kindred
From 're-'·back, again, return
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From 'venire'·to come
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