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From Proto-Germanic *bitulaz, *bītilaz (“that which tends to bite, biter, beetle”), from *bītaną; equivalent to bide +‎ -le. See also Icelandic bitil, bitul (“a bite, bit”), Faroese bitil (“small piece, bittock”).

bille c (singular definite billen, plural indefinite biller)

1. beetle

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• IPA^(key): /bij/

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Inherited from Middle French bille, from Old French bille (“small ball”), from Frankish *bikkil (“ossicle, a die, talus”). Cognate with Dutch bikkel (“dibs, die”), West Frisian bikkel (“die”), German Bickel (“marble”).

bille f (plural billes)

1. marble (spherical ball)
2. (snooker, billiards) ball
3. ball bearing
4. (slang) dimwit

• bille en tête
• roulement à billes
• stylo à bille
• toucher sa bille

• → Italian: biglia, bilia (once more common)
  • → Arabic: بِلْيَة (bilya)
  • → Turkish: bilye
• → Portuguese: bilha
• → Romanian: bilă
• → Vietnamese: bi

Inherited from Middle French bille, from Old French *bille (attested as Medieval Latin billia (“tree-trunk”)), from Vulgar Latin *billia, from Gaulish *bilia, from Proto-Celtic *belyom (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yom (“leaf”). Cognate with Irish bile (“tree”), Latin folium (“leaf, foil”).

bille f (plural billes)

1. tree trunk (chopped down, ready for sawing)
2. railway sleeper
3. rolling pin

• billon

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bille

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

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

From Scots and English bill.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʲɪlʲə/

bille m (genitive singular bille, nominative plural billí)

1. bill
2. currency note

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bille”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bille”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “bille”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

Borrowed from English bill.

bille f (plural billes)

1. (Jersey) note

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bille m (definite singular billen, indefinite plural biller, definite plural billene)

1. a beetle

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bille f (definite singular billa, indefinite plural biller, definite plural billene)

1. a beetle

• IPA^(key): /ˈbil.le/, [ˈbiɫ.ɫe]

bille

1. dative singular of bil

Borrowed from Frankish *bikkil.

bille oblique singular, f (oblique plural billes, nominative singular bille, nominative plural billes)

1. stick; baton

• Middle French: bille
  • French: bille
    • → Italian: biglia, bilia (once more common)
      • → Arabic: بِلْيَة (bilya)
      • → Turkish: bilye
    • → Portuguese: bilha
    • → Romanian: bilă
    • → Vietnamese: bi

From Latin bulla. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) Doublet of bulle.

bille oblique singular, f (oblique plural billes, nominative singular bille, nominative plural billes)

2. written decree, announcement (etc.)

• → Middle English: bille
  • English: bill

• bille on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (bille)
• bille on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)