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Pecuniary means “about money” or “made of money.” It is a formal, legal word, not a word for the street. You meet it in court papers and serious writing: a pecuniary interest (you stand to gain money), pecuniary loss (you lost money), pecuniary advantage. Ordinary people almost never say it; they say “money” or “financial.” It is not a type of money — it is a describing word. Though actually, the Latin behind it meant cattle, because cattle once were wealth; that is why it sits next to old money-words, not next to “cash” in everyday talk.
金錢上的、涉及金錢的（正式／法律用語）
組成From Latin pecūniārius, from pecūnia (money), from pecū (cattle). Cattle once counted as wealth, so the money word grew from the cattle word.
同家族的字
- impecunioussame Latin pecūnia, money — impecunious means having little or no money
- feean old relative: English fee and Latin pecū both go back to cattle as wealth
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pecuniaryadj/pɪˈkjuːn(jə)ɹi/
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Of, or relating to, money; monetary, financial.
- Perhaps the reader will suppose after this that the doctor had some pecuniary interest of his own in arranging the squire's loans; or, at any rate, he will think that the squire must have thought so.
- The views of philosophers, with few exceptions, have coincided with the pecuniary interests of their class.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。