bulle

See also: bullë, Bulle, and bullé

English

Noun

bulle (plural bulles)

1. Obsolete form of bull.

Anagrams

• Buell

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
   • 2015 January, Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex, volume 1, Éditions Grasset, →ISBN, page 93:

     Chaque souvenir est piégé. Une couverture qu’il avait gardée bien tirée sur l’angoisse glisse — la peau est mise en contact. Sa bulle était étanche, rassurante et bien équipée. Il vivait au formol, dans un monde qui s’est écroulé — accroché à des gens qui ne sont plus là.

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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

Galician

Verb

bulle

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

Middle English

Etymology

from Old French bulle, from Latin bulla.

Noun

bulle

1. papal bull, 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.

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Descendants

• English: bull
• Scots: bull, bul

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)

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

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbul.le/, [ˈbuɫ.ɫe]

Verb

bulle

1. inflection of bellan:
   1. second-person singular preterite indicative
   2. singular preterite subjunctive

Old French

Alternative forms

• boille, boule, boulle, burle

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bulla. Doublet of bille; compare also bole.

Noun

bulle oblique singular, 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

• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “bulle”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.
• bulle on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Spanish

Verb

bulle

1. inflection of bullir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. 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; round object”). Possible doublet of boll, bula, and bål. See also bälg and bölja for an extended form of the root.

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

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	bulle	bulles
	definite	bullen	bullens
plural	indefinite	bullar	bullars
	definite	bullarna	bullarnas

Derived terms

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

Descendants

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

See also

• biff

References

• “bulle”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “bulle”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “bulle”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• bulle in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• bulle in Knut Fredrik Söderwall, Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket, del 1: A-L