Revenue
late Middle English: from Old French revenu(e ) ‘returned’, past participle (used as a noun) of revenir, from Latin revenire ‘return’, from re- ‘back’ + venire ‘come’.
wiktionary
Recorded in English from 1433, "income from property or possessions", from Middle French revenue, from Old French[Term?](“a return”) (modern French revenu), the prop. feminine past participle of revenir(“come back”) (=modern French), from Latin revenire(“to return, come back”), from re-(“back”) + venire(“to come”).
etymonline
revenue (n.)
early 15c., "income from property or possessions," from Old French revenue "a return," noun use of fem. past participle of revenir "come back" (10c.), from Latin revenire "return, come back," from re- "back" (see re-) + venire "to come" (from a suffixed form of PIE root *gwa- "to go, come").
The meaning "public income, annual income of a government or state" is recorded from 1680s; revenue sharing was popularized from 1971, the Nixon Administration's policy of returning power to state and local governments by steering federal taxpayer money to them. Revenuer "U.S. Department of Revenue agent," the bane of Appalachian moonshiners, is attested by 1880.
