bulle (pluralbulles)
- Obsolete form ofbull.
Borrowed fromMiddle Frenchbulle, fromOld Frenchbulle, borrowed fromLatinbulla. Doublet of the inheritedboule.
bulle f (pluralbulles)
- bubble
2015 January,Virginie Despentes,Vernon Subutex, volume 1,Éditions Grasset,→ISBN,page93:Chaque souvenir est piégé. Une couverture qu’il avait gardée bien tirée sur l’angoisse glisse — la peau est mise en contact. Sabulle 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.- (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
- speech bubble,thought bubble
bulle
- inflection ofbuller:
- first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
- second-personsingularimperative
bulle
- inflection ofbullar:
- first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
- third-personsingularimperative
bulle
- papal bull
1387–1400,Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Pardoners Prologue”, inThe Canterbury Tales, [Westminster:William Caxton, published1478],→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 bybulle was graunted to me.- (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
FromOld Frenchbulle, borrowed fromLatinbulla.
bulle f (pluralbulles)
- (Ancient Rome)bulla (amulet)
- seal;bull (stamp in wax of authentification)
- a letter sealed with abull
- bulle onDictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)
- (Kautokeino)IPA(key): /ˈpuːlle/
būlle
- inflection ofbuollit:
- first-persondualpresentindicative
- third-personpluralpastindicative
Borrowed fromLatinbulla.Doublet ofbille; compare alsobole.
bulleoblique singular, f (oblique pluralbulles,nominative singularbulle,nominative pluralbulles)
- seal (a stamp in wax to seal a letter)
- a letter sealed with abull (seal)
bulle
- inflection ofbullir:
- third-personsingularpresentindicative
- second-personsingularimperative
FromOld Swedishbulle(“small round drinking cup”), fromOld Norsebolli. See alsobolle. Ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*bʰel-(“to blow, inflate, swell up; round object”). Possibledoublet ofboll,bula, andbål. See alsobälg andbölja for an extended form of the root.
bulle c
- abun, a smallbread roll
- (usually in compounds) aball-shaped or thick round piece (of some (ground-up or shredded) food)
- (slang) ataxi, acab
Usually sweetened outside of some compounds.
