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Translation

cash desk, till; fund

Word origin

From Italian cassa and French caisse, both from Latin capsa, a box. The same Latin box gave English case and capsule, and gave cash as well: the money is named after the chest it was kept in, which is exactly what a kaso still is.

Origin
Latin
Root
capsa
English cognates
cash, case, capsule

Examples

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Pay at the till by the door.

.

She works at the cash desk in the big department store.

.

The club's fund has enough money for the trip.

One root, two everyday senses, and they are the same idea. A is the physical place where money is taken in a shop, the till or cash desk, and it is also the fund an organisation keeps: , . English splits those into two words. Esperanto does not need to, because both are the box the money sits in, and the box is what the root actually means.

Three near neighbours, and only one of them is a container.Kesto is a chest or crate, the wooden thing in the corner: same job, no money implied. is specifically the money box, and by extension the counter it stands on. And kazo is a different word altogether, with z: a case in the grammatical, legal or medical sense, from Latin , a falling-out of events. never means a case in that sense, and never holds anything. One letter, two Latin roots, no overlap.

In use. The person at the till is a o, the machine is a kasregistrilo, and a savings bank in the older phrase is a ŝparkaso. Enkasigi is to take money in, which is what a business does at the end of a day. If you want the bank as an institution rather than the drawer, that is banko.

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This word is part of lesson 55.