I wrote just a second ago,

> Indeed, it's what the word "thesauros" originally meant in the form of Greek
>  that predated Latin. Thesauros is the singular root for both of the English
>  words, treasure and thesaurus. Close synonyms to thesaurus are collection,
>  storehouse, and the like.

I had intended on writing, "Close synonyms to thesaurus are collection,
storehouse, cache, and the like." Adding the word "cache" would have at least
made my posting less of a waste of bandwidth to a computer group :-).

Wirt