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Translation

account

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 rakonto, 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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This word is part of lesson 31.