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From Old French interesse and interest (French: intÃ©rÃªt), from Medieval Latin interesse, from Latin interesse.

Full definition of interest

(usually uncountable; plural interests)

(uncountable, finance) 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. from earlier 16th c.
Our bank offers borrowers an annual interest of 5%.
(uncountable) A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity. from later 18th c.

1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, Mr. Pratt's Patients Chapter 1, Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”
2013-06-21, Chico Harlan, Japan pockets the subsidy..., Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."

He has a lot of interest in vintage cars.
(uncountable) Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.

1918, W. B. Maxwell, The Mirror and the Lamp Chapter 7, â€¦ St.â€‰Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
2013-08-10, Standing orders, Over the past few years, however, interest has waxed again. A series of epidemiological studies, none big enough to be probative, but all pointing in the same direction, persuaded Emma Wilmot of the University of Leicester, in Britain, to carry out a meta-analysis. This is a technique that combines diverse studies in a statistically meaningful way.

(countable) A business or amorous link or involvement.
I have business interests in South Africa.
(countable) something one is interested in
Lexicography is one of my interests.
Victorian furniture is an interest of mine.
(obsolete, rare) Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.

1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.12:How can this infinit beauty, power and goodnes admit any correspondencie or similitude with a thing so base and abject as we are, without extreme interest and manifest derogation from his divine greatnesse?

The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.the iron interest; the cotton interest

To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.It might interest you to learn that others have already tried that approach.Action films don't really interest me.
(obsolete, often impersonal) To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.

FordOr rather, gracious sir,
Create me to this glory, since my cause
Doth interest this fair quarrel.

HookerThe mystical communion of all faithful men is such as maketh every one to be interested in those precious blessings which any one of them receiveth at God's hands.