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”).