Purchase
/ˈpɜːr.tʃəs/noun
To buy something; the act of buying something.
Did you know?In older English, a related sense of *purchase* meant to obtain or seize something by effort or strategy, not just to pay for it.
Etymological Timeline
14th Century
Middle English
purchasen
“to obtain, acquire, or buy”
Old French
Old French
pourchacier
“to pursue, chase after, or procure”
Latin
Latin
procaptiare
“to try to catch, pursue, or strive for”
Late Latin
Latin
captiare
“to try to seize or catch”
Latin
Latin
capere
“to take, seize, capture”
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*kap-
“to grasp, take”