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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dltsrq, post: 8163081, member: 75482&quot;]Interesting word just previous: <i>nummularius</i> (&quot;money changer&quot;). Checking the etymology online, I find <i>nummus</i> (coin, money) + <i>-ulus</i> (diminutive suffix, i.e. &quot;small coin&quot; or &quot;small amount of money&quot;) + <i>-arius</i> (denoting &quot;dealer, agent&quot;).</p><p><br /></p><p>Embedded in the word <i>nummularius </i>is the word <i>nummulus</i> which I was able to find used by Cicero in a letter to Atticus (8.13.2) written 49 BC, describing attitudes of both town and country folk amid the civil strife: <i>Nihil aliud curant, nisi agros, nisi villulas, nisi nummulos suos</i> (&quot;They care for nothing except their fields, their little villas, their little coins&quot;). One published translation reads &quot;They really think of nothing except their fields and their bits of farms and <u>investments</u>.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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