βύρσα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

A loanword of unknown, possibly Pre-Greek, origin. Perhaps cognate with Hittite 𒆳𒊭𒀸 (kur-ša-aš); see there for more.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /býr.sa/ → /ˈβyr.sa/ → /ˈvir.sa/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /býr.sa/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbyr.sa/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβyr.sa/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvyr.sa/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvir.sa/

Noun

βῠ́ρσᾰ • (búrsa) f (genitive βῠ́ρσης); first declension

1. the skin stripped off a hide, leather
2. the skin of a live animal

Inflection

First declension of ἡ βῠ́ρσᾰ; τῆς βῠ́ρσης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βῠ́ρσᾰ hē búrsa	τὼ βῠ́ρσᾱ tṑ búrsā	αἱ βῠ́ρσαι hai búrsai
Genitive	τῆς βῠ́ρσης tês búrsēs	τοῖν βῠ́ρσαιν toîn búrsain	τῶν βῠρσῶν tôn bursôn
Dative	τῇ βῠ́ρσῃ têi búrsēi	τοῖν βῠ́ρσαιν toîn búrsain	ταῖς βῠ́ρσαις taîs búrsais
Accusative	τὴν βῠ́ρσᾰν tḕn búrsan	τὼ βῠ́ρσᾱ tṑ búrsā	τᾱ̀ς βῠ́ρσᾱς tā̀s búrsās
Vocative	βῠ́ρσᾰ búrsa	βῠ́ρσᾱ búrsā	βῠ́ρσαι búrsai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• βύρσινος (búrsinos)

Descendants

• Latin: bursa (see there for further descendants)

References

• “βύρσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βύρσα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βύρσα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βύρσα in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• βύρσα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • hide idem, page 398.
  • skin idem, page 781.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 249