Where does “microfinance” come from?

Microfinance derives from English micro- combined with finance, which comes from Middle French finer, ultimately from Latin finis meaning boundary or end.

microfinance (English): Finance that is provided to unemployed or...

Definitions

  1. Finance that is provided to unemployed or...

Ancestry of “microfinance”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishfinanceThe management of money and other assets; The...
2Middle Englishfinauncefinance
3Middle Frenchfinance
4Middle Frenchfinerto finish
5Middle Frenchfinend; finish; death
6Old Frenchfinfine, delicate
7Latinfīnisend
8Proto-Indo-Europeandʰnh₂-

Words derived from “microfinance

Every word from Proto-Indo-European dʰnh₂-