burse

See also: Burse and bürşe

English

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɜː(ɹ)s/

Noun

burse (plural burses)

1. (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.

2. A fund or foundation for the maintenance of the needy scholars in their studies.
3. (ecclesiastical) An ornamental case to hold the corporal when not in use.
4. (obsolete) A stock exchange; a bourse.
5. (obsolete) A kind of bazaar.

Derived terms

• disburse
• imburse

 

References

• “burse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• rebus, erubs, Bures, Ubers, Suber, resub, Ruebs, urbes, bures, rubes, Reubs, suber, buers

Old English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin bursa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbur.se/, [ˈburˠ.ze]

Noun

burse f

1. bag, pouch

Declension

Declension of burse (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	burse	bursan
accusative	bursan	bursan
genitive	bursan	bursena
dative	bursan	bursum

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “palmæppel”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.