Etymology

bourse

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Today it means: A stock exchange. Full definition →

French bourse ← Old French borse ← Latin bursa
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromβύρσα
  2. Latin · derived frombursa
  3. Old French · derived fromborse
  4. French · borrowed frombourse
  5. English todaybourse

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.

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchborse all →

burse

Latinbursa all →

bursebursiform

Ancient Greekβύρσα all →

pursebursasporranburse

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.