"purse (for coins)" in seven languages
Meaningpurse (for coins)
Spanish
/moneˈdeɾo/
masc.inherited
French
/pɔʁtmɔnɛ/
masc.inherited
Invariable in the plural.
Italian
/portamoˈnete/
masc.inherited
Also borsellino, from borsa.
Portuguese
/ˈpɔɾtɐ moˈɛdɐs/
masc.inherited
Moeda shows the lost n of MONĒTAM.
Romanian
/portmoˈneu/
neut.borrowed · French porte-monnaie
Catalan
/munəˈde/
masc.inherited
English
/pɝs/
other source · Old English purs, from Medieval Latin BURSA 'leather bag'
In American English a purse is a handbag; the coin purse is the British sense.
The Latin ancestor
MONĒTAM‘mint, coin’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Moneta was a title of Juno, near whose temple in Rome coins were struck; the word became mint, money and the coin-holder. Spanish moneda voices the t; Portuguese moeda also loses the n between vowels.
English relatives: money, mint, monetary
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In a sentence
- esSacó una moneda del monedero.
- frElle a sorti une pièce de son porte-monnaie.
- itHa tirato fuori una moneta dal portamonete.
- ptEla tirou uma moeda do porta-moedas.
- roA scos o monedă din portmoneu.
- caVa treure una moneda del moneder.
- enShe took a coin out of her purse.