Translation
account
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Word origin
From Italian conto and French compte, both from Latin computus ('a reckoning'), from computare. An account is first of all a count: the ledger sense came before the bank.
- Origin
- Latin, via Italian and French
- Root
- computus
- English cognates
- account, count, compute
Examples
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I have an account at a small bank.
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She paid the whole sum from her account.
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The figure on the account is not correct.
is the ledger sense of account, never the telling sense: an account you give of something is a , a separate root that only looks as though it contains this one. The bank and the website share the word, so you open a at a and also at a site.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 17, lesson 3: konto, damo, strando and 7 more words.