- revenue (n.)
- mid-15c., "income from property or possessions," from Middle French revenue, from Old French, "a return," prop. fem. past participle of revenir "come back," from Latin revenire "return, come back," from re- "back" (see re-) + venire "come" (see venue). Meaning "public income" is first recorded 1680s; revenue sharing popularized from 1971. Revenuer "U.S. Department of Revenue agent," the bane of Appalachian moonshiners, first attested 1880.