pecunyal

Middle English

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “formed as if from Latin *pecunialis”)

Adjective

pecunyal

1. pecuniary
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Freres Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio xliii, recto, column 2:

     If any person wolde upon hem playne / There might aſterte hem no pecunyal payne

     If any person were to inform upon him, it would certainly / be impossible to escape the painful monetary consequences