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English
Noun
bulle (plural bulles)
- Obsolete form of bull.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French bulle, from Old French bulle, borrowed from Latin bulla. Doublet of the inherited boule.
Pronunciation
Noun
bulle f (plural bulles)
- bubble
- speech bubble, thought bubble
Derived terms
Verb
bulle
- inflection of buller:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
Galician
Verb
bulle
- inflection of bullar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Middle English
Noun
bulle
- papal bull
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Pardoners Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
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
Etymology
From Old French bulle, borrowed from Latin bulla.
Noun
bulle f (plural bulles)
- (Ancient Rome) bulla (amulet)
- seal; bull (stamp in wax of authentification)
- a letter sealed with a bull
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- bulle on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
Northern Sami
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈpuːlle/
Verb
būlle
- inflection of buollit:
- first-person dual present indicative
- third-person plural past indicative
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin bulla. Compare bole.
Noun
bulle oblique singular, f (oblique plural bulles, nominative singular bulle, nominative plural bulles)
- seal (a stamp in wax to seal a letter)
- a letter sealed with a bull (seal)
Descendants
References
Spanish
Verb
bulle
- inflection of bullir:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Swedish
Etymology
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
Noun
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
Usually sweetened outside of some compounds.
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
References