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bursa

See also: Bursa, bursă, bursą, and Bursą

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Medieval Latin bursa (“purse”), from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa); compare purse and bourse, which are doublets.

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bursa (plural bursae or bursæ)

  1. (anatomy) Any of the many small fluid-filled sacs located at the point where a muscle or tendon slides across bone. These sacs serve to reduce friction between the two moving surfaces.
    • 1899, Roswell Park, A Treatise on Surgery, page 402:
      A bursa over the anterior aspect of the upper end of the tibia, between the patellar tendon and the tubercle of the tibia, is sometimes enlarged, and may be mistaken for synovitis of the joint.
    • 2004, Dicken Weatherby, Signs and Symptoms Analysis from a Functional Perspective, page 247:
      Bursitis is inflammation of a bursa, which results in pain, tenderness, and stiffness and in some cases, swelling and redness.
    • 2011, Neeta V. Kulkarni, Clinical Anatomy (A Problem Solving Approach), page 116:
      A bursa may be present deep to coracobrachialis tendon.
  2. A diverticulum on the cloaca of young birds, which serves as a lymphatic organ and as part of the immune system, but which atrophies as the bird ages.
    • 1898, Frank Evers Beddard, The Structure and Classification of Birds, page 36:
      The general relations of the bursa to the cloaca are shown in the two accompanying figures.
    • 1943, Charles Milton Kirkpatrick, Growth, Development, and Endocrine Studies of the Ring-necked Pheasant, with Special Reference to the Bursa of Fabricius, page 37:
      The dark, crescentic area is the opening of the bursa, from which the covering membrane is temporarily withdrawn.
    • 2009, Julius M. Cruse, Robert E. Lewis, Illustrated Dictionary of Immunology:
      The bursa is located near the terminal portion of the cloaca and, like the thymus, is a lymphoepithelial organ.
  3. Any of various pouch-like organs for storing semen prior to copulation in the male or for receiving semen in the female.
    • 1978, V.M. Ivashkin, Helminths of Farm Animals of the Mongolian People's Republic, page 16:
      That portion of the dilated vas deferens which lies outside the cavity of the genital bursa is called the external seminal vesicle .
    • 2010, Janet Leonard, Alex Cordoba-Aguilar, The Evolution of Primary Sexual Characters in Animals, page 156:
      In other groups, all members of each clade lack a bursa copulatrix. Conversely, some taxa such as many Dendronotina may lack a receptaculum but possess a bursa.
    • 2017, Fatik Baran Mandal, Biology of Non-Chordates, page 185:
      The vagina extends anteriorly over the dorsal side of seminal vesicle to the sperm-filled seminal bursa.
  4. (religion) A parament about twelve inches square in which the folded corporal is kept in for reasons of reverence.
    • 1853, George Lewis, The Bible, the Missal, and the Breviary, page 358:
      In solemn mass the deacon brings the book of the Missal to the side of the epistle, then goes backward behind the celebrant; the sub-deacon, indeed, goes to the gospel side, where he cleanses the chalice, fits it with the purifacatory, covers it with the paten and pall, folds the corporal, replaces it in the bursa, and puts it in the chalice covered with a veil, which he places on the altar or over the credentia, as before.
    • 1890, “The "Corporale" and "Palla"”, in American Ecclesiastical Review, volume 3, page 419:
      It is forbidden to leave the corporal, when not in use, exposed upon the altar, or to carry it in one's hands without a covering. A bursa is always to be used for that purpose .
    • 1995, Godefridus J. C. Snoek, Medieval Piety from Relics to the Eucharist, page 90:
      Just like relics, the Eucharist was taken, enclosed in a bursa or pendula as a means of protection not only on journeys overland but - and especially - when travellers ventured onto the whimsical sea.

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Indonesian

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈbʊr.sa]
  • Hyphenation: bur‧sa

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bursa

  1. (business, economics) exchange: a place for conducting trading.
    Bursa Efek Indonesia ― Indonesia Stock Exchange
  2. (by extension, figurative, colloquial) election.
    Synonym: pemilihan
    bursa capres ― presidential candidate election

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bursa

  1. (anatomy) bursa, any of the many small fluid-filled sacs located at the point where a muscle or tendon slides across bone. These sacs serve to reduce friction between the two moving surfaces.

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Medieval Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa, “hide, wine-skin”).

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bursa m (genitive singular bursa, nominative plural bursaí)

  1. burse; purse

Declension

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Declension of bursa (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative bursa bursaí
vocative a bhursaí a bhursaa
genitive bursaí bursa
dative bursa bursaí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an bursa na bursaí
genitive an bhursaí na mbursa
dative leis an mbursa
don bhursa 		leis na bursaí

Mutation

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Mutated forms of bursa
radical lenition eclipsis
bursa bhursa mbursa

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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bursa

  1. (Kanembu) cloud

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  • Francis Jouannet, Le kanembou des Ngaldoukou: langue saharienne parlée sur les rives septentrionales du lac Tchad: phonématique et prosodie (1982, Paris: SELAF)
  • Kakadu Kanembu Kərânei: Kakadu 2 (UNESCO)

Latin

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Etymology

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Late Latin (4th century); from the Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa, “hide, wine-skin”).

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bursa f (genitive bursae); first declension

  1. (originally Late Latin) oxhide, animal skin
  2. (by extension, Medieval Latin) purse, especially one made of skin or leather
  3. (Medieval Latin) supply of money, funds
  4. (Medieval Latin) pension

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative bursa bursae
genitive bursae bursārum
dative bursae bursīs
accusative bursam bursās
ablative bursā bursīs
vocative bursa bursae

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References

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  • bursa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • “bursa”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Northern Sami

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Latin bursa.
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  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈpurːsa/

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bursa

  1. purse (for money)
  2. wallet
  3. stock market

Inflection

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Even a-stem, rs-rss gradation
Nominative bursa
Genitive burssa
Singular Plural
Nominative bursa burssat
Accusative burssa burssaid
Genitive burssa burssaid
Illative bursii burssaide
Locative burssas burssain
Comitative burssain burssaiguin
Essive bursan
Possessive forms
Singular Dual Plural
1st person bursan bursame bursamet
2nd person bursat bursade bursadet
3rd person bursas bursaska bursaset

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  • Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Polish

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin bursa.

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bursa f

  1. (dated, education) boarding house (housing for students at a boarding school)
    Synonym: internat
  2. (Roman Catholicism) bursa (parament about twelve inches square in which the folded corporal is kept in for reasons of reverence)

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Declension of bursa
singular plural
nominative bursa bursy
genitive bursy burs
dative bursie bursom
accusative bursę bursy
instrumental bursą bursami
locative bursie bursach
vocative burso bursy

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Further reading

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  • bursa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • bursa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa). Doublet of bolsa.

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  • Hyphenation: bur‧sa

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bursa f (plural bursas)

  1. (anatomy) bursa (sac where muscle slides across bone)

Romansch

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Etymology

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From Late Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa, “hide, wine-skin”).

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bursa f (plural bursas)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) purse
  2. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) exchange

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin bursa. Doublet of bolsa.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbuɾsa/ [ˈbuɾ.sa]
  • Rhymes: -uɾsa
  • Syllabification: bur‧sa

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bursa f (plural bursas)

  1. (anatomy) bursa
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Swedish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin bursa.

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bursa c

  1. (anatomy) bursa
    Synonym: slemsäck

Declension

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Declension of bursa
nominative genitive
singular indefinite bursa bursas
definite bursan bursans
plural indefinite bursor bursors
definite bursorna bursornas

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