Source etymology 1 · variant 1/3
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills. · To obtain a payout from a tournament.
From late Middle French caisse (“money-box”), itself borrowed from Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa (“box”), ultimately from capiō (“take, seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“grasp”). Doublet of case, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja (“box”).
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