Monte di Pietàn.

Brit.

/ˌmɒntɪ dɪ ˌpiːɛˈtɑː/, U.S.

/ˌmɑn(t)i də ˌpieɪˈtɑ/

Inflections: Plural Monti di Pietà, Monti di Pieta.

Forms: 1600s Monte de pietà, 1800s– Monte di Pietà. Also with lower-case initials.

Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian monte di pietà.

Etymology: < Italian monte di pietà (1462) < monte mount n.¹ + di of + pietà piety n. Compare earlier Mount of Piety n.The institution was apparently founded in Perugia in 1462, as an establishment for advancing money to the poor at a reasonable rate of interest. In some of the examples below, perhaps used as the name of a particular lending house. Compare the following, apparently remodelled after French mont (compare Mont de Piété n.):a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 366 Neere this [sc. in Rome] is the Mont Pietà instituted as a banc for the poore, who..may have mony upon pawns. Not fully naturalized in English. O.E.D. Suppl. (1976) gives the non-naturalized pronunciation (mǫ·nte di pyeta) /ˈmonte di pjeta/.

Now chiefly historical.

In Italy: a Church or State-funded lending house or pawnshop; = Mount of Piety n.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > loan-shop

mountain of piety1617

loan-house1622

Mount of Pietya1630

Monte di Pietà1654

loan-bank1662

loan-office1720

Mount of Pity1792

lending-house1797

Mont de Piété1840

loan-shop1849

1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Worlde 89 Amongst other religious places..there is the house of pietie, called il Monte della pieta, which..may dispend yeerely 60000. crownes.]

1654 J. Howell in S. Lennard tr. S. Mazzella Parthenopoeia To Rdr. sig. A1^v Monte de pietà, an Hospital of 60000. Duckets of yeerly Revenue.

1805 P. Beckford Familiar Lett. Italy I. xxiv. 231 The Monte di Pietà was established first at Florence, in the year 1496, to restrain the usury of the Jews.

1883 Athenæum 18 Aug. 218/1 The..186 first-class pictures from the Monte di Pietà, where they had been pawned ages ago by destitute aristocratic families.

1973 Listener 18 Jan. 81/2 These Christian pawnshops, still in existence in Italy today, were known as Monti di Pieta or ‘funds of charity’. When they were first founded, in Umbrian towns of the mid-15th century, they charged low interest rates.

1997 J. Williams Money vii. 190/1 Part of its function was to provide funds for charity by working with the monti di pietà, institutions which helped the poor by lending small sums of money at very low interest rates.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	monte di pietà
释义	Monte di Pietàn. Brit. /ˌmɒntɪ dɪ ˌpiːɛˈtɑː/, U.S. /ˌmɑn(t)i də ˌpieɪˈtɑ/ Inflections: Plural Monti di Pietà, Monti di Pieta. Forms: 1600s Monte de pietà, 1800s– Monte di Pietà. Also with lower-case initials. Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian monte di pietà. Etymology: < Italian monte di pietà (1462) < monte mount n.¹ + di of + pietà piety n. Compare earlier Mount of Piety n.The institution was apparently founded in Perugia in 1462, as an establishment for advancing money to the poor at a reasonable rate of interest. In some of the examples below, perhaps used as the name of a particular lending house. Compare the following, apparently remodelled after French mont (compare Mont de Piété n.):a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 366 Neere this [sc. in Rome] is the Mont Pietà instituted as a banc for the poore, who..may have mony upon pawns. Not fully naturalized in English. O.E.D. Suppl. (1976) gives the non-naturalized pronunciation (mǫ·nte di pyeta) /ˈmonte di pjeta/. Now chiefly historical. In Italy: a Church or State-funded lending house or pawnshop; = Mount of Piety n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > loan-shop mountain of piety1617 loan-house1622 Mount of Pietya1630 Monte di Pietà1654 loan-bank1662 loan-office1720 Mount of Pity1792 lending-house1797 Mont de Piété1840 loan-shop1849 1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Worlde 89 Amongst other religious places..there is the house of pietie, called il Monte della pieta, which..may dispend yeerely 60000. crownes.] 1654 J. Howell in S. Lennard tr. S. Mazzella Parthenopoeia To Rdr. sig. A1^v Monte de pietà, an Hospital of 60000. Duckets of yeerly Revenue. 1805 P. Beckford Familiar Lett. Italy I. xxiv. 231 The Monte di Pietà was established first at Florence, in the year 1496, to restrain the usury of the Jews. 1883 Athenæum 18 Aug. 218/1 The..186 first-class pictures from the Monte di Pietà, where they had been pawned ages ago by destitute aristocratic families. 1973 Listener 18 Jan. 81/2 These Christian pawnshops, still in existence in Italy today, were known as Monti di Pieta or ‘funds of charity’. When they were first founded, in Umbrian towns of the mid-15th century, they charged low interest rates. 1997 J. Williams Money vii. 190/1 Part of its function was to provide funds for charity by working with the monti di pietà, institutions which helped the poor by lending small sums of money at very low interest rates. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1654
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