Week #289 - Interested in "cash"?...............

[Moon]

QUESTION:

 

Where was the term "cash" derived from?

 

 

 

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[bit1work]

French = caisse, Latin = capsa means box or chest where people kept cash or specie

[MunkyMan95]

From the obsolete French casse, meaning money box

[MunkyMan95]

OR Portuguese caixa, from Tamil kācu, a small coin

[dan8402]

The word stems from the Latin word for "box", cassa. Originally, the French used this term to refer to the "moneybox" holding any cash, but later the term applied to the cash itself.

[bsshog40]

It was either the French or the Italians who gave English this word - it was "casse" in French and "cassa" in Italian. Both meant "money box", but they had come to refer also to the money itself by the time English borrowed the word in the 16th century. Those Romance languages got casse/cassa from Latin capsa "box". English lost the "money box" meaning in the 18th century and kept only the "money" meaning, so that now we hear the term cash box, which is etymologically redundant!

[Coinguy19]

The term cash is derived from the Italian word cassa, meaning the chest, in which Italian merchants kept their money.

[Tom Elias]

Derived from the south and east asia word for low value coins--(In Tamil--Kasu, a south Indian monetary unit) )-then Portuguese casa, English -cass

[jtryka]

It is derived from the latin term "cassa" for box, the English probably derived it from the French "Casse" or Italian "Cassa" meaning money box.

[stinkycheese1]

Sanskrit karsa, a weight of gold or silver ,or Old Persian karsha-, a weight. a unit of value equivalent to one cash coin.

 

[DC Dawg]

The French word caisse, which is a box or chest that held a sum of money.

 

Scott

[BigBob]

It stems from the Latin word for "box", cassa. Originally, the term was used by the French to refer to the "moneybox" holding any cash, but later the term applied to the cash itself.

[Admiral Mike-migration]

I am afraid that I am going to cheat this time around... thhis is taken from wikipedia...

 

The English word cash is of the French caisse, itself a borrowing of the Provençal caissa. That Provençal word is a derivative of the Latin capsa (box, chest), most likely by way of an unattested Vulgar Latin form *capsea; Spanish caja and Portuguese caixa are their respective languages' reflexes.[1] [2] From the original sense of a box or a chest, the word came to refer to a sum of money such as was or might be contained in one, and eventually to specie or, with the elimination of metallic standards, banknotes.[1] In this sense, it is used in contrast to credit or other financial instruments.

 

The word "cash" can also be traced back to: Sanskrit karsa, a weight of gold or silver but akin to Old Persian karsha-, a weight. a unit of value equivalent to one cash coin.

 

 

[rons]

I am always interested in cash

 

Cash stems from the Latin word for "box", cassa. later became moneybox and evolved into cashbox then shortened to cash

[mhardin2413]

an early modern english (sixteenth century) shortening of "cashier" which in turn was derived from the middle french "cassaier" (money box), which in turn is derived from the latin. ultimately, the latin root "cas-" means box.

[bstat1021-migration]

The word cash is derived from the Latin caspa meaning box or chest. The word cash came from the original sense of a box or chest.

[bsshog40]

It must be a hard choice as to who wins this trivia!

[Moon]

Question:

 

Where was the term "cash" derived from?

 

Answer:

 

The first bank note printed during the Great War Era (1368-1398) by the Ming Dynasty was known as a 1,000 cash note.

 

 

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[Moon]

Apologies for the delay, technical difficulties posting answer. Thanks for your patience.

[mhardin2413]

i must disagree (i am a grammar professor, so this is my field of expertise). according to the oxford english dictionary, which is the official source for all things etymological, teh first recorded use of the word "cash" meaning "money" (and not money box) was 1596. about the same time, the chinese influence was noted (1598), but hte spelling was "caixa," while the first spelling as "cash" that can be attributed to the chinese was 1699.

 

please consider my reply.

thanks

 

[bstat1021-migration]

I am confused. I thought you wanted to know where the word was derived from, not when the first cash note was produced.

 

Oh well.

[PovertyRow]

From the French caisse meaning "money box".