Translation
treasure
Word origin
From French tresor, from Latin thesaurus, from Greek thesauros ('a store, a treasure house'). Roget's book of words borrowed the same Greek noun, which is why a thesaurus is a hoard.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- thesaurus
- English cognates
- treasure, thesaurus, treasury
Examples
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The old man hid his treasure in the garden.
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Her books were her greatest treasure.
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They searched for the treasure for many years.
Literal chests and figurative ones. Esperanto uses as an endearment much as French and Italian do, so a small child can be without anyone finding it odd. The treasurer of a club is the o, from , not from this root.
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