Today's podictionary word is cash . Money makes the world go round and cash is king.
The word cash appeared in English right around the time of Shakespeare, and he, being right on top of this language thing, used it; in Henry V two soldiers discussing gambling debts mention it.
But during the same period the word cash held the meaning of a “box to keep money in.” Both meanings originated from the French casse, also a case or chest, and ultimately from Latin where caspa also meant case or container.
When soldiers store their weapons they do so in an arms cache, cache which is also from French where it means “to hide.” I find it incredible that even though this French word is ultimately from Latin, etymological sources don't connect cash and the box you hide it in, with cache a hiding place. But they don't.
