bouillir
French
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) to boil becoming boiling, reach boiling point
- (transitive) to boil cause to boil
- (figuratively) to seethe
Etymology
Inherited from Old French boillir (boil, burst) inherited from Latin bullīre (seethe, roil, boil).
Origin
Latin
bullīre
Gloss
seethe, roil, boil
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bouillabaisse English
- bouillon English
- bulla English
- bulla Finnish
- *bulbulliare Latin
- *bullicāre Latin
- bubble, bulla Latin
- bulla Latin
- bulliō Latin
- bullo Latin
- bullīre Latin
- bullō Latin
- Bouillon German
- boiacca Italian
- bolla Italian
- bollire Italian
- bollo Italian
- buglione Italian
- bulletino Italian
- bullettino Italian
- cipolla Italian
- bouillon Dutch, Flemish
- -oter French
- abaisser French
- bouillabaisse French
- bouilleur French
- bouilloire French
- bouillon French
- bouillonner French
- bouillotte French
- bouillotter French
- débouillir French
- rebouillir French
- бульон Russian
- bollo Spanish, Castilian
- bula Spanish, Castilian
- bulla Spanish, Castilian
- bullir Spanish, Castilian
- *bew- Proto-Indo-European
- bolha Portuguese
- bula Portuguese
- ブイヤベース Japanese
- bulion Polish
- bulla Polish
- bylet Middle English
- billette Old French
- boillir Old French
- bole Old French
- bolir Old French
- bulle Old French
- buljono Esperanto
- bujon Serbo-Croatian
- bola Catalan, Valencian
- bullabessa Catalan, Valencian
- bullir Catalan, Valencian
- butlla Catalan, Valencian
- bola Galician
- bulion Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- μπουγιαμπέσα Greek (modern)
- bouoilli Norman
- bouôillon Norman
- Bouillon Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- abaissar Occitan
- bola Occitan
- bolhabaissa Occitan
- bolhir Occitan
- *bollā Frankish
- bola Old Occitan
- bojir Venetian
- bóła Venetian
- buyir Ladino
- buyon Mauritian Creole
- bouilli Louisiana Creole French
- buyon Seychellois Creole
- bouyon Antillean Creole