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Fee

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Anglo-Saxon feoh, cattle, goods, money. So in Latin, pecunĭa, from pecus, cattle. Capital is capĭta, heads [of cattle], and chattels is a mere variant.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.