From Old French 'burgeis' (townsman), itself from Germanic *burgz (fortress) — bourgeois originally just meant 'city dweller' before acquiring its class-critical edge.
Belonging to or characteristic of the middle class, especially in having conventional values and materialistic attitudes; also used as a noun for a member of the middle class.
From Old French 'burgeis' (citizen of a town, townsman), from 'burc' or 'burg' (fortified town), itself from Late Latin 'burgus' (fortress, fortified town), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *burgz (fortress, fortified elevation). The word entered English in the mid-sixteenth century, retaining its French pronunciation. In Old French, a burgeis was simply someone who lived
English borrowed 'bourgeois' from French, but both languages got the underlying word from Germanic. The French bourg and the English borough are distant cousins — both descend from Proto-Germanic *burgz (fortress). So 'bourgeois' is a Germanic word that took a round trip through Romance before coming