bulle

bulle

See also: Bulle and bullé

English

Noun

bulle (plural bulles)

1. Obsolete form of bull.

Anagrams

• Buell

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French bulle, from Old French bulle, borrowed from Latin bulla. Doublet of the inherited boule.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /byl/

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Noun

bulle f (plural bulles)

1. bubble
2. speech bubble, thought bubble

Derived terms

• niveau à bulle
• papier bulle
• tirer la bulle
• tri à bulles

Verb

bulle

1. inflection of buller:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “bulle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle English

Noun

bulle

1. papal bull
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Pardoners Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868, 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.

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French bulle, borrowed from Latin bulla.

Noun

bulle f (plural bulles)

1. (Ancient Rome) bulla (amulet)
2. seal; bull (stamp in wax of authentification)
3. a letter sealed with a bull

Derived terms

• bullette

Descendants

• French: bulle

References

• bulle on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

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Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈpuːlle/

Verb

būlle

1. inflection of buollit:
   1. first-person dual present indicative
   2. third-person plural past indicative

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Old French

Alternative forms

• boille, boule, boulle, burle

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bulla. Compare bole.

Noun

bulle f (oblique plural bulles, nominative singular bulle, nominative plural bulles)

1. seal (a stamp in wax to seal a letter)
2. a letter sealed with a bull (seal)

Descendants

• Middle French: bulle
  • French: bulle
• → Middle English: bulle
  • English: bull
  • Scots: bull, bul

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (bulle, supplement)
• bulle on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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Spanish

Verb

bulle

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

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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

• IPA^(key): /²bɵlɛ/
• Rhymes: -²ɵlɛ

Noun

bulle c

1. a bun, a small bread roll
2. (usually in compounds) a ball-shaped or thick round piece (of some (ground-up or shredded) food)
3. (slang) a taxi, a cab

Usage notes

Usually sweetened outside of some compounds.

Declension

Declension of bulle
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	bulle	bullen	bullar	bullarna
Genitive	bulles	bullens	bullars	bullarnas

Derived terms

• bullbak
• bullfest
• bullfitta
• bullig
• bullighet
• bullängd
• fiskbulle
• kanelbulle
• krämbulle
• köttbulle
• potatisbulle
• rågbulle
• vetebulle

 

Descendants

• → Finnish: pulla
  • → English: pulla
• → Finnish: pullo

References

• 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