burse
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle French bourse, from Old French borse, from Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa). Doublet of purse, compare French bourse (“purse, fund”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]burse (plural burses)
- (now chiefly historical) A purse.
- 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter IX, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 90:
- Roche stepped forward with a leather burse, announcing that he would pay for both of us.
- 2021 January 22, The Guardian:
- Try a burse instead – sort of a bag, sort of a purse, inspired by the cases that hold the corporal cloth used in mass, and designed to be carried by men.
- A fund or foundation for the maintenance of the needy scholars in their studies.
- (ecclesiastical) An ornamental case to hold the corporal when not in use.
- (obsolete) A stock exchange; a bourse.
- (obsolete) A kind of bazaar.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “burse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Late Latin bursa
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]burse f
Declension
[edit]Weak:
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | burse | bursan |
accusative | bursan | bursan |
genitive | bursan | bursena |
dative | bursan | bursum |
References
[edit]- Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “burse”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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