## 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.

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