bulla

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin bulla (“bubble”). Doublet of bull.

Noun

bulla (plural bullae)

1. (biology, medicine) A blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion, as:
   1. (biology, medicine) (usually and especially) Such a blister that is more than 5 mm in diameter.

      Coordinate terms: vesicle, vesicula

2. (archaeology) A clay envelope or hollow ball, typically with seal impressions or writing on its outside indicating its contents.
3. (historical) In ancient Rome, a kind of amulet or boss.
4. Later, a handwritten document from the papal chancellery.
5. The tympanic part of a temporal bone (having a bubble-like appearance)

Translations

See also

• bullous

Etymology 2

Noun

bulla (countable and uncountable, plural bullas)

1. A rich Jamaican cake made with molasses and spiced with ginger and nutmeg.

Further reading

• bulla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Darkinjung

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʊllɐ/, /pʊllɐ/

Numeral

bulla

1. two

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse *bulla, from Proto-Germanic *bullōną.

Verb

bulla (third person singular past indicative bullaði, third person plural past indicative bullaðu, supine bullað)

1. to bubble, gush up
2. to speak unintelligibly
3. to gabble, babble, talk nonsense, twaddle
4. to simmer

Conjugation

Further reading

• "bulla" at Sprotin.fo

Finnish

 bulla on Finnish Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bulla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulːɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ulːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): bul‧la

Noun

bulla

1. bull (papal bull)

Declension

Further reading

• “bulla”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /by.la/

Verb

bulla

1. third-person singular past historic of buller

Galician

Verb

bulla

1. inflection of bullar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʏtla/
• Rhymes: -ʏtla

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

bulla (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative bullaði, supine bullað)

1. (intransitive) to talk nonsense
2. (intransitive) to boil, to bubble up

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (talk nonsense): rugla, þvæla, þvaðra
• (boil): sjóða

Derived terms

• bullandi

Related terms

• bull

Etymology 2

Noun

bulla f (genitive singular bullu, nominative plural bullur)

1. a piston

Declension

Synonyms

• (piston): stimpill

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Noun

bulla f (genitive singular bullu, nominative plural bullur)

1. a bully

Declension

Synonyms

• (bully): svoli

Irish

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bulla m (genitive singular bulla, nominative plural bullaí)

1. (nautical) buoy
2. (medicine) bulla

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish bulla, borrowed from Latin bulla.

Noun

bulla m (genitive singular bulla, nominative plural bullaí)

1. (Christianity) bull

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

bulla m (genitive singular bulla, nominative plural bullaí)

1. (finance) bull

Etymology 4

Noun

bulla m (genitive singular bulla, nominative plural bullaí)

1. Alternative form of bolla (“bowl”)

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bulla”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 bulla”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “bulla” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “bulla” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly from Gaulish , from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“swelling”), same source as Middle Dutch puyl (“bag”) and Lithuanian bule (“buttocks”), or from *bʰel- (“to blow, inflate, swell”). Ultimately onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbul.la/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbul.la/,

Noun

bulla f (genitive bullae); first declension

1. a bubble
2. a swollen or bubble-shaped object, particularly:
   1. a knob, boss, or stud, as on doors, shields, etc.
   2. (historical) a bulla: a protective (usually golden) amulet worn by upper-class Roman children
   4. (Medieval Latin, historical) a round metallic seal certifying official medieval documents, particularly the golden imperial seal and the leaden papal one.
3. (Medieval Latin) a papal bull or other official document sealed with a bulla

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• “bulla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bulla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bulla in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• bulla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “bulla”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “bulla”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Phuthi

Verb

-búĺla

1. to be circumcised

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

bulla

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin bulla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbul.la/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ulla
• Syllabification: bul‧la

Noun

bulla f

1. (Roman Catholicism) bull (papal bull; a document from the papal chancellery)

Declension

Further reading

• bulla in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bulla in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• bulla in PWN's encyclopedia

Spanish

Pronunciation

• Syllabification: bu‧lla

Etymology 1

Deverbal from bullir, from Latin bullīre (“to bubble, boil”), from bulla (“bubble”).

Noun

bulla f (plural bullas)

1. rowdiness, racket, ruckus
2. (Andalusia) urgence

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Portuguese: bulha

Etymology 2

Verb

bulla

1. inflection of bullir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “bulla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014