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Bulgarian
Noun
портмоне́ • (portmoné) n
- purse, wallet
Declension
Russian
Etymology
Borrowed from French porte-monnaie. Ultimately from Latin portō (whence multiple descendants, compare close related English portfolio, Russian портфе́ль (portfélʹ), Russian портфо́лио (portfólio)) + Latin monēta (whence English money, English mint, Russian моне́та (monéta)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (phonetic respelling: портмонэ́)
Noun
портмоне́ • (portmonɛ́) n inan (indeclinable)
- wallet, purse, porte-monnaie
- Synonyms: кошелёк (košeljók), бума́жник (bumážnik)
References
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “портмоне”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 59
- Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999) “монета”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 541
- Šanskij, N. M. (2004) “портмоне”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
- Krylov, G. A. (2004) “портмоне”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Victory, →ISBN
- Tsyhanenko, H. P. (1989) “порт”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка (in Russian), 2nd edition, Kyiv: Radjanska shkola, →ISBN, page 320
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