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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French bourse, from Old French borse, from Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa). Doublet of purse, compare Danish børs, Swedish börs, German Börse. See also bursar.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /bɔːs/, (without the pour–poor merger) /bʊəs/
Audio (Southern England); /-ɔː-/: (file) - (US) IPA(key): /bɔːɹs/, (without the pour–poor merger) /bʊəɹs/
- Homophone: boss (non-rhotic, pour–poor merger)
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s, -ʊə(ɹ)s
Noun
bourse (plural bourses)
- A stock exchange.
- (figuratively) Any place, real or imagined, where the value of a thing is settled.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:bourse.
- (figuratively) Any place, real or imagined, where the value of a thing is settled.
- (philately) A meeting of stamp collectors and/or dealers, where stamps and covers are sold or exchanged.
- (botany) The swollen basal part of an inflorescence axis at the onset of fruit development; it bears leaves whose axillary buds differentiate and may grow out as shoots.
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Translations
stock exchange — see stock exchange
place where the value of a thing is settled
philately: meeting of stamp collectors for the exchange of stamps and covers
botany: The swollen basal part of an inflorescence axis at the onset of fruit development
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French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French borse, from Medieval Latin, Late Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa, “hide”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bourse f (plural bourses)
- (dated) coin purse
- Synonym: porte-monnaie
- a purseful of money; by extension, any sum of money available to be paid
- financial grant
- bourse, stock exchange
- (anatomy)
- (generally in the plural) the scrotum
- Synonym: scrotum
- 1805, Georges Cuvier, Les organes de la génération:
- Les testicules [...] sont suspendus au-dessous du bassin dans une espèce de bourse ou de scrotum [...]
- The testicles [...] are hanging below the pelvis in a sort of purse or scrotum [...]
- (in the plural, slang) balls
- Synonyms: testicules, (slang) couilles
- Ça remonte à quand, la dernière fois que tu t’es vidé les bourses ?
- When was the last time you emptied your balls?
- (generally in the plural) the scrotum
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References
- Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition
- “bourse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French borse.
Noun
bourse f (plural bourses)
Descendants
Norman
Etymology
From Old French borse, Late Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa, “hide”).
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
bourse f (plural bourses)
- (Jersey) mermaid's purse
- (Jersey) shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)
- (Jersey) corn salad (Valerianella locusta)
Synonyms
- (mermaid's purse): bourse au dgiâbl'ye, chiviéthe à bras, crapaud d'mé
- (shepherd's purse): pid d'ouaîthé
Descendants
- English: burse
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