Revenue
/ˈrɛv.ə.njuː/noun
Income received by a person, business, or government over a period of time.
Did you know?Revenue comes from Old French reveneü, from revenir meaning “to come back,” so the word originally carried the sense of a return or recurrence before it became financial income.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*gwa-
“to go, come”
Latin
Latin
revenīre
“to come back, return”
Old French
Old French
revenu
“a return; income; that which comes back”
Middle English
English
revenue
“income; proceeds; return from land or property”
Modern English
English
revenue
“income received by a person or organization”