Noun: purse
| Singular | purse |
| Plural | purses |
Sample Sentences
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And then muſt many a man occupie as farre as his purſe would reache, and ſtretche out his legges accordynge to the length of his couerlet. [1550, Steuen Mierdman, The market or fayre of usurers:]
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Master leathercrafter does handcrafted wallets, belts, purses, handbags etc., supporting self and helpers. Good enough to carve fantst art and portraits into leather. [1987 August 15, Robert Benitez, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 5, page 14:]
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It was a historic and a hefty battle when Myler and Percy were scheduled to don the gloves for the purse of fifty sovereigns. [1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 12: The Cyclops]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like purse
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English purs, from Old English purs (“purse”), partly from pusa (“wallet, bag, scrip”) and partly from burse (“pouch, bag”).
2. Old English pusa comes from Proto-West Germanic *pusō, from Proto-Germanic *pusô (“bag, sack, scrip”), and is cognate with Old High German pfoso (“pouch, purse”), Low German pūse (“purse, bag”), Old Norse posi (“purse, bag”), Danish pose (“purse, bag”). Old English burse comes from Medieval Latin bursa (“leather bag”) (compare English bursar), from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa, “hide, wine-skin”).
3. Compare also Old French borse (French bourse), Old Saxon bursa (“bag”), Old High German burissa (“wallet”). See: Middle English Nouns '
purs', Old English Nouns '
purs', Old English Nouns '
pusa', Old Norse Nouns '
posi', Danish Nouns '
pose', Old English Nouns '
burse', English Nouns '
bursar', Ancient Greek Nouns '
βύρσα', French Nouns '
bourse'.
Verbs referencing "purse"
Spanish Nouns
bolso, Icelandic Nouns
posi.