bulla

See also: Bulla, buļļa, and ɓulla

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin bulla (“bubble”).

Noun

bulla (plural bullae)

  1. (medicine) A blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion.
  2. (archaeology) A clay envelope or hollow ball, typically with seal impressions or writing on its outside indicating its contents.
  3. (historical) In ancient Rome, a kind of amulet or boss.
  4. Later, a handwritten document from the papal chancellery.

See also

Etymology 2

Noun

bulla (countable and uncountable, plural bullas)

  1. A rich Jamaican cake made with molasses and spiced with ginger and nutmeg.

Further reading

Darkinjung

Numeral

bulla

  1. two

Finnish

(index b)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bulla.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: bul‧la

Noun

bulla

  1. bull (papal bull)

Declension

Inflection of bulla (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation)
nominative bulla bullat
genitive bullan bullien
partitive bullaa bullia
illative bullaan bulliin
singular plural
nominative bulla bullat
accusative nom. bulla bullat
gen. bullan
genitive bullan bullien
bullainrare
partitive bullaa bullia
inessive bullassa bullissa
elative bullasta bullista
illative bullaan bulliin
adessive bullalla bullilla
ablative bullalta bullilta
allative bullalle bullille
essive bullana bullina
translative bullaksi bulliksi
instructive — bullin
abessive bullatta bullitta
comitative — bullineen

French

Verb

bulla

  1. third-person singular past historic of buller

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpʏtla/
  • Rhymes: -ʏtla

Noun

bulla f (genitive singular bullu, nominative plural bullur)

  1. a piston syn.
  2. a bully syn.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Verb

bulla (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative bullaði, supine bullað)

  1. (intransitive) to talk nonsense syn.
  2. (intransitive) to boil, to bubble up syn.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Irish

Etymology 1

Noun

bulla m (genitive singular bulla, nominative plural bullaí)

  1. (nautical) buoy
  2. (medicine) bulla
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish bulla, borrowed from Latin bulla.

Noun

bulla m (genitive singular bulla, nominative plural bullaí)

  1. (Christianity) bull

Etymology 3

Noun

bulla m (genitive singular bulla, nominative plural bullaí)

  1. (finance) bull

Etymology 4

Noun

bulla m (genitive singular bulla, nominative plural bullaí)

  1. Alternative form of bolla (“bowl”)

Declension

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bulla bhulla mbulla
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • "bulla" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “1 bulla” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • Entries containing “bulla” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “bulla” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Latin

Etymology

From Gaulish [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *beu (“swelling”), same source as Middle Dutch puyl (“bag”) and Lithuanian bule (“buttocks”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

bulla f (genitive bullae); first declension

  1. a bubble
  2. a swollen or bubble-shaped object, particularly:
    1. a knob, boss, or stud, as on doors, shields, etc.
    2. (historical) a bulla: a protective (usually golden) amulet worn by upper-class Roman children
    3. (Medieval Latin, historical) a round metallic seal certifying official medieval documents, particularly the golden imperial seal and the leaden papal one.
  3. (Medieval Latin) a papal bull or other official document sealed with a bulla

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative bulla bullae
genitive bullae bullārum
dative bullae bullīs
accusative bullam bullās
ablative bullā bullīs
vocative bulla bullae

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • bulla in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • bulla in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • bulla in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • bulla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • bulla in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • bulla in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  1. ↑ Skeat, An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbul.la/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

bulla f

  1. bull, papal bull; a document from the papal chancellery

Usage notes

Usually found in the noun phrase bulla papieska.

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From bullir, from Latin bullīre, present active infinitive of bulliō (“I bubble, boil”), from bulla (“bubble”).

Noun

bulla f (plural bullas)

  1. rowdiness, racket, ruckus

Derived terms

Descendants

Verb

bulla

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of bullir.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of bullir.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of bullir.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of bullir.
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