bulle
English edit
Noun edit
bulle (plural bulles)
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Middle French bulle, from Old French bulle, borrowed from Latin bulla. Doublet of the inherited boule.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bulle f (plural bulles)
Derived terms edit
Verb edit
bulle
- inflection of buller:
Further reading edit
- “bulle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician edit
Verb edit
bulle
- inflection of bullar:
Middle English edit
Noun edit
bulle
- papal bull
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Pardoners Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio lxx, recto, column 2:
- And who ſo fyndeth hym out of ſuche blame / Commeth up and offre in goddes name / And I assoyle hym by the auctorite / Such as by bulle was graunted to me.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Middle French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French bulle, borrowed from Latin bulla.
Noun edit
bulle f (plural bulles)
- (Ancient Rome) bulla (amulet)
- seal; bull (stamp in wax of authentification)
- a letter sealed with a bull
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- French: bulle
References edit
- bulle on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
Northern Sami edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
būlle
- inflection of buollit:
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin bulla. Compare bole.
Noun edit
bulle oblique singular, f (oblique plural bulles, nominative singular bulle, nominative plural bulles)
Descendants edit
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (bulle, supplement)
- bulle on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Spanish edit
Verb edit
bulle
- inflection of bullir:
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Swedish bulle (“small round drinking cup”), from Old Norse bolli. See also bolle. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, inflate, swell up”). Doublet of boll, bula, bål, bälg, and bölja.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bulle c
- a bun, a small bread roll
- (usually in compounds) a ball-shaped or thick round piece (of some (ground-up or shredded) food)
- (slang) a taxi, a cab
Usage notes edit
Usually sweetened outside of some compounds.
Declension edit
Declension of bulle | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | bulle | bullen | bullar | bullarna |
Genitive | bulles | bullens | bullars | bullarnas |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- bulle in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- bulle in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- bulle in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- bulle in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
- bulle in Knut Fredrik Söderwall, Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket, del 1: A-L