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The word treasure comes from Greek (thesauros) and Latin (thesaurus), both meaning treasury, or treasure house.

The noun evolved into Old French, tresor (treasure, treasury) and proved sufficiently popular to take over by around 1200 from the Old English goldhord, with - as you can tell from the word - the same meaning.

Treasure as a verb is first recorded in English in the 1300s.

Bear in mind that when we say words originated from ancient Greek or Latin or both, we're actually saying we don't have records of the word before then. These words came from somewherebefore the Greeks or Romans took them up, but we only have written records from ancient Greek and Roman times.

There are words we can trace back further, but treasureisn't one of them to the best of my knowledge.

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