bulle
Old French
noun
Definitions
- seal (a stamp in wax to seal a letter)
- a letter sealed with a bull (seal)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin bulla (bubble, rounded object, document, amulet, round object, round swelling, water bubble, stud, buble, button, bud, decree, bull, knob).
Origin
Latin
bulla
Gloss
bubble, rounded object, document, amulet, round object, round swelling, water bubble, stud, buble, button, bud, decree, bull, knob
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
芽
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bulla English
- papal bull English
- bulla Finnish
- *bulbulliare Latin
- bubble, bulla Latin
- bulla Latin
- bullo Latin
- bullō Latin
- bolla Italian
- bollo Italian
- bulletino Italian
- bullettino Italian
- cipolla Italian
- bulle French
- bollo Spanish, Castilian
- bula Spanish, Castilian
- *bew- Proto-Indo-European
- bolha Portuguese
- bula Portuguese
- bulla Polish
- bille Middle English
- bulle Middle English
- bylet Middle English
- billette Old French
- bole Old French
- bulleite Old French
- bola Catalan, Valencian
- butlla Catalan, Valencian
- bola Galician
- bulle Middle French
- bullette Middle French
- bola Occitan
- *bollā Frankish
- bola Old Occitan
- bóła Venetian
- bille xno