per mensem

American  

[per men-sem, per men-suhm] / pɛr ˈmɛn sɛm, pər ˈmɛn səm /

adverb

Latin.

1. by the month.

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per mensem British  

/ ˈpɜː ˈmɛnsəm /

adverb

1. every month or by the month

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Example Sentences

In all the courts of judicature, interest for money lent is recognised at the rate of one ámole per mensem upon each dollar.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis

Also, he was of less account in the eyes of Joan Malcolm than Capper, a blundering English Acting-Superintendent of Police, with a pittance of six hundred rupees per mensem.

From Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers by Various

And at the end of the war we were receiving the same number of pounds per mensem in paper as we had received at the beginning in gold.

From A Prisoner in Turkey by Still, John

Usual rate of interest The rate of interest charged as a penalty for non-payment or late payment was twenty-five per cent. per mensem, three hundred per cent. per annum.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)

Their pay varies from 100 to 1,000 piastres per mensem; it is, however, inferior to the Madinah salaries.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir