FromMiddle Englishtresorie, fromOld Frenchtresorie, fromtresor(“treasure”), fromLatinthēsaurus(“treasure”), fromAncient Greekθησαυρός(thēsaurós,“treasure house”). Displaced nativeOld Englishmāþmhūs.

• (UK)IPA^(key):/ˈtɹɛʒ.ə.ɹi/
• (US)IPA^(key):/ˈtɹɛʒ.ɚ.i/

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treasury (pluraltreasuries)

1. Aplace wheretreasure isstoredsafely.
2. A place wherestate orroyalmoney andvaluables are stored.
3. (government)Ellipsis oftreasury department.
4. Acollection ofartistic orliteraryworks.
5. (obsolete) A treasure.
   • 1599, W. Kinsayder or Theriomastix [pseudonyms;John Marston], “Totum in Toto”, inThe Scourge of Villanie. […], London:[…]I[ames] R[oberts],→OCLC; republished asG[eorge] B[agshawe] Harrison, editor,The Scourge of Villanie (The Bodley Head Quartos;13), London:John Lane,The Bodley Head […]; New York, N.Y.:E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company,1925,→OCLC,page56:

     Now since he hath the grace, thus gracelesse be / His neighbors sweare he'le swell withtreasurie.

• thesaurus
• treasure
• treasurer

• → Gujarati:તિજોરી(tijorī)
• → Hindi:तिजोरी(tijorī)
• → Marathi:तिजोरी(tijorī)

• “treasury”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “treasury”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
• “treasury”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.