bulle

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
2. speech bubble, thought bubble

• tirer la bulle

bulle

1. first-person singular present indicative of buller
2. third-person singular present indicative of buller
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of buller
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of buller
5. second-person singular imperative of buller

• “bulle” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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. Compare bole.

bulle 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)

• English: bull (borrowed, "seal, papal bull")
• Middle French: bulle
  • French: bulle

• 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. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of bullir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of bullir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of bullir.

• IPA^(key): /²bɵlɛ/
• Rhymes: -²ɵlɛ

bulle c

1. a bun; a small bread roll
2. (slang) a taxi, a cab

(a bun):

• bulle in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)