Un'altra interessante scoperta fatta grazie a "la palabra del dia", proprio oggi che per l'ennesima volta discutevo in quinta sulla differenza tra il verbo "to control" - che significa prevalentemente "tenere sotto controllo" "regolare" - e il verbo "to check" - che significa "verificare", "esaminare", "investigare" .... un po' come l'operazione da me tentata col post del 10 gennaio (riuscita solo in parte...)

Non conoscevo l'etimologia di "controllo / are" ma eccola qui (credo sia comprensibile anche in spagnolo):
"*** control ***
Cuando los mercaderes venecianos crearon el sistema de contabilidad por partida doble --que perdura hasta hoy-- con sus registros de debe y haber, pérdidas y ganancias, y activo y pasivo, sol?an utilizar dos rollos de papel: el deudor, que en el lat?n vulgar de la época llamaban *rotulus* (rollo de papel o de papiro) y el deudor, que
llamaban *contrarotulus* (rollo de verificaci?n).
Este ?ltimo nombre pas? al francés como *contrer?lle*, que m?s tarde dar?a lugar a *contr?le*, con el sentido actual de ‘inspeccionar’, ‘fiscalizar’ o ‘dominar’.

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[Middle English controllen, from Anglo-Norman contreroller, from Medieval Latin contrrotulre, to check by duplicate register, from contrrotulus, duplicate register : Latin contr-, contra- + Latin rotulus, roll, diminutive of rota, wheel; see ret- in Indo-European roots.]

Già che c'ero ho ... controllato (checked) anche l'origine di "check" ed ecco un'altra sorpresa! La lascio in inglese perché non ho tempo di tradurre, tanto se uno è arrivato fin qui credo possa fare un ulteriore piccolo sforzo! :-)

Word History: The words check, chess, and shah are all related. Shah, as one might think, is a borrowing into English of the Persian title for the monarch of that country. The Persian word shh was also a term used in chess, a game played in Persia long before it was introduced to Europe. One said shh as a warning when the opponent's king was under attack. The Persian word in this sense, after passing through Arabic, probably Old Spanish, and then Old French, came into Middle English as chek about seven hundred years ago. Chess itself comes from a plural form of the Old French word that gave us the word check. Checkmate, the next stage after check, goes back to the Arabic phrase shh mt, meaning "the king is dead." Through a complex development having to do with senses that evolved from the notion of checking the king, check came to mean something used to ensure accuracy or authenticity. One such means was a counterfoil, a part of a check, for example, retained by the issuer as documentation of a transaction. Check first meant "counterfoil" and then came to mean anything, such as a bill or bank draft, with a counterfoilor eventually even without one.