invoiceyoudaoicibaDictYouDict[invoice 词源字典]
invoice: see envoy
[invoice etymology, invoice origin, 英语词源]
invoice (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict
1550s, apparently from Middle French envois, plural of envoi "dispatch (of goods)," literally "a sending," from envoyer "to send" (see envoy). As a verb, 1690s, from the noun.