bourse – French noun declension

French noun forms of bourse

Noun: bourse
Gender: f Hyphenation:
Singular fbourse
Plural fbourses

Sample Sentences

  • 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 …) [1805, Georges Cuvier, Les organes de la génération:]
  • Ça remonte à quand, la dernière fois que tu t'es vidé les bourses ? (When was the last time you emptied your balls?)

Etymology

Inherited from Old French borse, from Medieval Latin, Late Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa, “hide”). See: Ancient Greek Nouns 'βύρσα'.

Verbs referencing "bourse"

English Nouns purse, English Nouns bourse, English Nouns burse, Ukrainian Nouns біржа, Romanian Nouns bursă.

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