World History

left. Also, does moneta mean money? I'll have to look up the ancestry of our word.

Back... Juno Moneta was the name given to Juno in her temple in the Roman forum...from moneo/monere, to warn, as in admonish... Her job was to warn Romans of danger. Her temple became the location of their mint, another monere word. The mint ran...curro, currere... all day and night, so currency resulted from all that running. Also, ergo these financial words are usually feminine in gender due to Juno.