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The Latin word caupo means "a petty tradesman". The commonest derivative of this in modern English is the word "cheap". Old English had the word ceapian, meaning "to trade", which represents an early borrowing of caupo into Germanic (German still has the word kaufen, "to buy", from the same source). The expression "god chep" in Middle English meant "a good bargain", and this led "cheap" to develop its modern sense of "inexpensive".

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