purse的词源

英文词源

purse

purse: [OE] Purse was borrowed into Old English from late Latin bursa (source of English bursar [13] and reimburse [17]), which went back to Greek búrsa. This originally meant ‘skin, leather’, and hence came to be used for ‘wineskin, bag’. The Latin word was also borrowed into the Celtic languages, where it produced Gaelic sporan, source of English sporran.
=> bursar, reimburse, sporran

purse (n.)

Old English pursa "little bag made of leather," especially for carrying money, from Medieval Latin bursa "leather purse" (source also of Old French borse, 12c., Modern French bourse; see bourse), from Late Latin bursa, variant of byrsa "hide," from Greek byrsa "hide, leather." Change of b- to p- perhaps by influence of Old English pusa, Old Norse posi "bag."

Meaning "woman's handbag" is attested from 1951. Meaning "sum of money collected as a prize in a race, etc.," is from 1640s. Purse-strings, figurative for "control of money," is from early 15c. Purse-snatcher first attested 1902 (earlier purse-picker, 1540s). The notion of "drawn together by a thong" also is behind purse-net (c. 1400).

purse (v.)

c. 1300, "put in a purse;" c. 1600 as "draw together and wrinkle" (as the strings of a money bag), from purse (n.). Related: Pursed; pursing.

中文词源

purse：钱包

这个词来源于希腊词byrsa，意思是“皮”、“革”，因为这些钱包往往是用皮革制作的。我国也有把“钱包”叫作“皮包”、“皮夹”的，大概也是出于同样的原因吧。Byrsa一词进入法语后，变为bourse，意思是“钱包”或“钱包里拭目以待钱”。Bourse在写时指世界闻名的“巴黎证券交易所”。英语吸收了这个词，把它变作了purse，泛指“钱包”，常指西方摩登女郎用来装零钱、钥匙、粉盒、小镜子等物品的小手提包。

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purse：钱包

来自古英语pursa,钱包，小袋子，来自拉丁语bursa,皮革袋，词源同bursar,reimburse.