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Orsay

/ɔʁ.sɛ/

proper noun/ɔʁ.sɛ/

Orsay (a commune of Essonne department, Île-de-France)

Related: Musée d'Orsay, Quai d'Orsay

Inherited from Middle French Ourcet, from Early Medieval Latin Urticetum, from Orceiacus, from Orcei, from (villa) Orceacus, from Orceacum. Of indeterminate Gallo-Roman origin, possibly after someone named Orcius, or otherwise related to ursus (“bear”).