pecuniarie

Pecuniarie is an archaic or rarely used English adjective meaning relating to money or financial matters. It appears as a variant form of pecuniary that may be encountered in older legal and scholarly texts. In contemporary English, pecuniary is the standard term, and pecuniarie is typically found only in historical contexts or in works that deliberately echo Latin phrasing.

The word derives from Latin pecuniarius, from pecunia meaning money. English inherited pecuniary through Old French and medieval Latin; pecuniarie represents an older or Latinized spelling that sometimes appears in documents to preserve authenticity or formal tone.

In practice, pecuniary is used in modern writing to denote monetary matters, such as pecuniary damages or pecuniary interests. Pecuniarie is rarely used today, and when it does appear it often signals antiquarian, ceremonial, or juridical diction, sometimes in translations or texts that aim to retain Latin stylistic features.

See also pecuniary, pecunia, monetary, financial.