pecu-, pecun- +

He that loveth silver will not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase.

From the Old Testament: Ecclesiastes, V, 10 (c. 250 B.C.). It is probably the origin of "The More he has, the more he wants."

It is said that the multi-millionaire, John D. Rockefeller, was once asked, "How much money does it take to make a man happy?" His response: "Just a little more!"

1. Having little or no money, and so unable to lead a comfortable life.
2. Not having enough money to pay for necessities.
3. Lacking money; in need of money; penniless.

1. Descriptive words for people having little or no money.
2. A reference to those who are penniless and poor.

No place is so strongly fortified that money could not capture it.

Another way of saying, "Money can buy anything or anyone." In addition, it could mean, "With enough money, one can have everything he/she wants; except good health and eternal life."

From Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 - 43 B.C.). Cicero's voluminous writings include poetry (both his own and translations from the Greek); orations (fifty-eight have survived, forty-eight are lost); treatises on rhetoric, philosophy, morals, and politics; as well as letters. His treatises are important historically because they contain much information on ancient thought. His letters are the chief source for our knowledge of the period.

After Caesar's murder, he violently attacked Mark Antony in his celebrated Philippics. When the second triumvirate was formed, he was put on the list of the proscribed and was murdered by Antony's agents.

1. Raising, or rearing, cattle.
2. Etymologically, from Latin pecud-em "a beast"; in plural, "cattle" plus "culture".

The word format is based on agriculture, horticulture, floriculture, etc.

3. The genetics, breeding, nutrition and housing of domesticated animals; animal husbandry; zooculture.

1. To steal or to take dishonestly (money, especially public funds, or property entrusted to one's care); embezzle; literally, "to make public property private".
2. To steal; to embezzle public money; to appropriate as private property, literally from, "property in cattle".

The appropriation of public money or property by someone in an official position; the embezzlement of money or goods entrusted to his care.

1. Someone who peculates or who embezzles public funds or public property.
2. Derived from Latin peculatus, past participle of peculari, "to embezzle public money", from peculium, "private property"; literally, "property in cattle" which represented "wealth".

1. Strange; queer; odd; curious; unusual; such as, "He had a peculiar accident."
2. Uncommon; unusual; such as, "She had a peculiar hobby of collecting words."
3. Distinctive in nature or character from others.
4. Belonging characteristically (usually followed by to): "The Canadian used an expression peculiar to Canadians."
5. Belonging exclusively to a person, group, or thing.
6. Common or normal for a certain place or circumstance.
7. In astronomy, designating a star or galaxy with special properties that deviates from others of its special type or galaxy class.
8. In Britain, a particular parish or church that is exempted from the jurisdiction of the ordinary or bishop in whose diocese it lies and is governed by another.
9. Etymology: from Latin peculiaris as "one's own", equivalent to peculi(um), "private property" (derivative of pecu, "flock, farm animals", literally "property in cattle"; akin to pecus, "cattle" from which came pecunia, "money" because cattle represented wealth before money became the main element of such a status).

Black slavery in the southern U.S. before the Civil War.

1. A trait, manner, characteristic, or habit that is odd or unusual.
2. Oddity; singularity; eccentricity.
3. A distinguishing quality or characteristic.
4. The quality or condition of being peculiar.

To make peculiar, unusual, distinguished, etc.

1. In Roman law: The property which a father allowed his child, or a master allowed his slave, to hold as his own.
2. A private or exclusive possession, property, or appurtenance.

1. Of or pertaining to money: "He had pecuniary problems and couldn't pay for his debts."
2. Consisting of or given or exacted in money or monetary payments.
3. With reference to a crime, violation, etc.: involving a money penalty or fine.
4. From Latin pecuniarius, "of, or pertaining to money"; derivative of pecunia, "property, money" (from pecu(s), "cattle"; derivative of pecu, "flock" or "herd").

In the nomadic period of Indo-European civilization, before money in precious metal or other compact symbols was thought of, a man's wealth was reckoned in flocks and herds.

The Latin pecus means "cattle", and the derivative pecunia originally meant, "property in cattle". As civilization advanced and wealth was represented by many things other than cattle, the old word was kept with the broader new meaning.

When "money" was invented and adopted as a measurement of wealth, the word pecunia took on the new meaning of "money". Derived from this was the adjective pecuniarius, "relating to or consisting of money", from which English gives us pecuniary.

The state or fact of being supplied with money.