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Cache

2 stages from French to English.

Today it means a hidden store of items, or a temporary storage area for quick data access
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Stage 1 of 2
cacher
French · medieval
"to hide"
to hide, to conceal
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Stage 2 of 2
cache
English · 1790s
"a hidden store of goods, or fast temporary storage"
settled as the word for a hidden store of goods, later a computing term
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