bourse
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]- (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
[edit]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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[edit]Translations
[edit]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
Further reading
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[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French borse, from Medieval Latin, Late Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa, “hide”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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
Derived terms
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[edit]References
[edit]- 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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French borse.
Noun
[edit]bourse f (plural bourses)
Descendants
[edit]Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French borse, Late Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa, “hide”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]bourse f (plural bourses)
- (Jersey) mermaid's purse
- (Jersey) shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)
- (Jersey) corn salad (Valerianella locusta)
Synonyms
[edit]- (mermaid's purse): bourse au dgiâbl'ye, chiviéthe à bras, crapaud d'mé
- (shepherd's purse): pid d'ouaîthé
Descendants
[edit]- English: burse
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