bold

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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology 1

From Middle English bold, from Old English bold, blod, bolt, botl (“house, dwelling-place, mansion, hall, castle, temple”), from Proto-Germanic *budlan, *buþlan (“house, dwelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bheu-, *bhū- (“to grow, wax, swell, live, dwell”). Cognate with Old Frisian bold (“house”) (whence North Frisian bol, boel, bøl (“house”)), North Frisian bodel, budel (“property, inheritance”), Middle Low German būdel (“property, real estate”). Related to build.

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bold (plural bolds)

  1. (obsolete) A dwelling; habitation; building.
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[edit] Etymology 2

From Middle English bold, bald, beald, from Old English bald, beald (“bold, brave, confident, strong, of good courage, presumptuous, impudent”), from Proto-Germanic *balþaz (“strong, bold”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhel-, *bhlē- (“to bloat, swell, bubble”). Cognate with Dutch boud (“bold, courageous, fearless”), Middle High German balt (“bold”) (whence German bald (“soon”)), Swedish båld (“bold, dauntless”).

[edit] Adjective

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bold (comparative bolder, superlative boldest)

  1. Courageous, daring.
    • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 239c.
      It would be extraordinarily bold of me to give it a try after seeing what has happened to you.
  2. (of a font) having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface
    The last word of this sentence is bold.
  3. presumptuous.
    • 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 9.
      even the boldest and most affirmative philosophy, that has ever attempted to impose its crude dictates and principles on mankind.
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courageous, daring
having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface
presumptuous
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[edit] Verb

bold (third-person singular simple present bolds, present participle bolding, simple past and past participle bolded)

  1. To make a font of some text bold.

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bold c. (singular definite bolden, plural indefinite bolde)

  1. ball

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    Inflection of bold
common gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative bold bolden bolde boldene
genitive bolds boldens boldes boldenes

[edit] Old English

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Probably representing an earlier *bodl, *boþl, from Proto-Germanic *bōþlan, from an instrumental form of Proto-Germanic *būanan (“to dwell”). Compare Old Norse ból.

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bold n.

  1. house, dwelling, building

[edit] Declension

    Declension of bold (strong a-stem)
Singular Plural
nominative bold bold
accusative bold bold
genitive boldes bolda
dative bolde boldum

[edit] Romanian

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From a Common Slavic bodli.

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bold n. (plural bolduri)

  1. pin

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