interest

Meanings

The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed.
Any excess over and above an exact equivalent
A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.
Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.
An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.
Something or someone one is interested in.
Condition or quality of exciting concern or being of importance
Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.
The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.

To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.
To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.
To cause or permit to share.

From Middle English interest, from Old French interesse and interest (French intérêt), from Medieval Latin interesse, from Latin interesse.

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