ταμείο

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Greek

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Koine Greek ταμεῖον (tameîon), from Ancient Greek ταμιεῖον (tamieîon, “treasury, storehouse, closet”), with semantic loan from French caisse and semantic loan from Latin thesaurus.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ta.ˈmi.o/

Noun

ταμείο • (tameío) n (plural ταμεία)

cash desk, checkout, cashier's desk
box office, ticket office

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	ταμείο (tameío)	ταμεία (tameía)
genitive	ταμείου (tameíou)	ταμείων (tameíon)
accusative	ταμείο (tameío)	ταμεία (tameía)
vocative	ταμείο (tameío)	ταμεία (tameía)

Derived terms

αυτόματη ταμειακή μηχανή f (aftómati tameiakí michaní, “automatic cash machine”)
αυτόματη ταμειολογιστική μηχανή f (aftómati tameiologistikí michaní, “automatic cash machine”)
ΑΤΜ f (ATM, “ATM”)
Διεθνές Νομισματικό Ταμείο n (Diethnés Nomismatikó Tameío, “International Monetary Fund”)
ασφαλιστικό ταμείο n (asfalistikó tameío, “public sector organization providing for health insurance and pensions”).

Related terms

ταμίας m or f (tamías, “cashier”)
ταμειακός (tameiakós, “cash, fiscal”)
ταμιευτήριο n (tamieftírio, “savings' bank”)
ταμιευτήρας (tamieftíras, “reservoir”)

and see: αποταμιεύω (apotamiévo, “to save, to save up”)

References

^ ταμείο, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language

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