moneta

Meaning

(declension-1) mint, a place for coining money
(declension-1) money, coinage
(Medieval-Latin, abbreviation, alt-of, declension-1, historical) abbreviation of monētārius (“moneyer, minter”), in its various forms

coin

νόμισμα

κέρμα

Pronounced as (IPA)

[mɔˈneː.ta]

From Monēta, an Italian goddess conflated with Juno after her introduction (cf. evocatio) to Rome in 344 BC. Her temple was used by the Roman mint from 273 BC until it was destroyed by fire and moved to the Colosseum by Domitian in AD 84. The usual derivation—given by Cicero and the Byzantine Suda— is from monēre (“to warn, to advise”) + a variant of -īta, but it is now considered more likely the earlier Italian goddess's name came from a form of Ancient Greek μονήρης (monḗrēs, “solitary, alone, unique”).