treasury

C2+ Topic:Places & Geography

US /ˈtrɛʒəri/ UK /ˈtrɛʒəri/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
a place or fund in which valuables or public revenues are kept

The coins were locked away in the royal treasury.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a place or fund in which... exchequercoffersfund repository reserve vault

Word family

Related forms treasure treasurer treasurous

Etymology

From Old French tresorie, from tresor ('treasure'), from Latin thesaurus ('treasure, storehouse'), from Ancient Greek thesauros ('store, treasure').

tresorie Old French thesaurus Latin thesauros Ancient Greek

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Topics

Places & Geography Word Formation & Derivatives

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# treasury

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈtrɛʒəri/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈtrɛʒəri/

## Meanings
1. a place or fund in which valuables or public revenues are kept

## Examples
- The coins were locked away in the royal treasury.

## Synonyms
- exchequer
- coffers
- fund
- repository
- reserve
- vault

## Related Forms
- treasure
- treasurer
- treasurous

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: tresorie
- Root: thesaurus
- Root: thesauros

## Etymology
From Old French tresorie, from tresor ('treasure'), from Latin thesaurus ('treasure, storehouse'), from Ancient Greek thesauros ('store, treasure').

## AI Etymology
Treasury comes from Old French tresorie, from tresor ('treasure'), from Latin thesaurus ('treasure, storehouse'), from Ancient Greek thesauros ('store, treasure'). The historical chain includes Old French tresorie, Latin thesaurus, and Ancient Greek thesauros. The quoted older senses, "treasure", "treasure, storehouse", and "store, treasure", supply the semantic anchors for treasury. The formation is best read as borrowed: the word treasury carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a noun, "a place or fund in which valuables or public revenues are kept". Related English forms include treasure, treasurer, and treasurous. The result is a noun whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

## Topics
- Places & Geography
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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