Why this word is great
FENERATION — [Noun] The act or practice of lending money at interest, especially at a high or exorbitant rate. From the Latin faenerationem, accusative of faeneratio, from the verb faenerare ("to lend at interest"), itself from faenus ("interest, usury"). Unlike “lending,” which implies a simple return of principal, or “usury,” which carries the thunder of moral condemnation, feneration is the cold, technical kernel of the transaction—the sterile, mechanical fact of money begetting money. It is the dry rustle of a promissory note in a strongbox, the incremental tally in a ledger’s margin, and the silent, geometric growth of a sum in a vault—the quiet engine that transforms time itself into a tangible, compounding weight.