Where does “bursă” come from?

bursă (Romanian) comes from French bourse, from Italian borsa, from Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα — the skin stripped off a hide, leather; the skin...

bursă (Romanian): stock exchange

Definitions

  1. stock exchange

Ancestry of “bursă”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchboursepurse; money; financial grant
2Italianborsabag, handbag, purse, briefcase; scholarship,...
3Latinbursaoxhide, animal skin; purse, especially one made...
4Ancient Greekβύρσαthe skin stripped off a hide, leather; the skin...
Every word from Ancient Greek βύρσα
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