bulle (plural bulles)

1. Obsolete form of bull.

• Buell

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

• IPA^(key): /byl/

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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

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

bulle

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

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

bulle

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

bulle

1. papal 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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From Old French bulle, borrowed from Latin bulla.

bulle f (plural bulles)

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

• bullette

• French: bulle

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

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈpuːlle/

būlle

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

• boille, boule, boulle, burle

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

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)

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

• 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

bulle

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

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.

• IPA^(key): /²bɵlɛ/
• Rhymes: -²ɵlɛ

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

Usually sweetened outside of some compounds.

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

• 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