bourse

Betekenis

1. A stock exchange.
2. A stock exchange.
3. A meeting of stamp collectors and/or dealers, where stamps and covers are sold or exchanged.
4. 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.

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/bɔːs/

Etimologie

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.