Caixeiros

[John de Figueiredo]

Interesting. I wonder if the English word “cash” comes from the Portuguese “caixa”. Cândido de Figueiredo used to criticize the Portuguese for their “anglicismos” and “galicismos”. If “cash” was derived from “caixa”, it would be an example of “Lusitanismo” of the British and the Americans.
John M. de Figueiredo

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[Carvalho]

Dear John,

You're not wrong. I just googled it. The English word cash does indeed come from the Latin root for box. There we go, learn something new everyday. 

Warm wishes,

Selma

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[Roland Francis]

In Toronto the Caixas are located in Portuguese ethnic areas and they are referred to as Foreign Correspondent offices of Portuguese banks. 

In Quebec Caisses are co-operative banks usually operating as bankers and investors to civil service employees much like a Credit Union. 

Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec (CDPQ) is the second largest pension and investment fund in Canada after the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. The returns they receive from their investments are very high while taking minimal risk because they have billions to invest. 

Roland

Toronto.

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[Patrice Riemens]

If I am not mistaken, 'caixa' is in PT and ES (languages) also a financial institution, usually a bank (& that word in turn comes from the bench, ' banco', the money handlers were  doing their business on in the middle ages ... 

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[Hugo Cardoso]

Dear all,

I've come across this etymological proposal, but it's not the only one around. 

Yule & Burnell (in Hobson-Jobson, 1903) and Dalgado (in Glossário Luso-Asiático, 1919) have a different interpretation. They mention that early Portuguese documents from Asia use a term like caxa, caxe or caixa for some low-value Asian coins, but this would not be the same caixa that means 'box' in Portuguese; it would have been a loan from a South Asian language, presumably from a Dravidian source like kasu (ultimately from Sanskrit kar,sa). And, according to that interpretation, Indian English would have received the term cash from this Asian-Portuguese word. It's difficult to tell which of the theories is correct, but Yule & Burnell and Dalgado's is perhaps relevant for this discussion group.

All the best,

Hugo Cardoso

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[Rafael Moreira]

Sorry, but in Spanish it's "caja". In Portuguese it's "caixa", ok.
Yours, R.M.

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> If I am not mistaken, 'caixa' is in PT and ES (languages) also a financial
> institution, usually a bank (& that word in turn comes from the bench, '
> banco', the money handlers were doing their business on in the middle ages
> ...
> (sorry to make just a cameo appearance on this list, but I couldn't resist
> ;-)
> Cheers to all, p+7D!&H!
>
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[Patrice Riemens]

https://www.caixabank.com/en/home_en.html
Not a Portuguese Bank afaik ...

[William Robert Da Silva]

Caixo, banco etc., which related to money in gold and silver, not paper and promisary note, was Spanish, Italian and Portuguese in origin and circulation. It spread over.

William Robert Da Silva

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