tresor

See also: Tresor, trésor, and Trésor

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin thesaurus, from Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsaurós). Doublet of tesaurus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [tɾəˈzɔr]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [tɾəˈzɔ]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [tɾeˈzɔɾ]

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Noun

tresor m (plural tresors)

1. treasure
2. treasury

Derived terms

• atresorar
• tresorejar
• tresorer

Further reading

• “tresor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tresor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “tresor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tresor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Middle English

Noun

tresor

1. Alternative form of tresour

Old French

Etymology

From Latin thēsaurus (“treasure”), from Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsaurós, “treasure house”).

Noun

tresor oblique singular, m (oblique plural tresors, nominative singular tresors, nominative plural tresor)

1. treasure (something of high value)
   • c. 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     C'est mes avoirs, c'est mes tresorz.

     It is my possession, it is my treasure.

Descendants

• Middle French: thresor
  • French: trésor
• Walloon: trezôr
• → Middle English: tresour
  • English: treasure
  • Scots: treisur
• → Esperanto: trezoro
• → German: Tresor
  • → Czech: trezor
  • → Serbo-Croatian: trèzōr/трѐзо̄р
• → Ido: trezoro
• → Ladino: trezoro
• → Occitan: tresaur
• → Welsh: trysor

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “treasure”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.