bulla

Borrowed from Latin bulla (“bubble”). Doublet of bull.

bulla (plural bullae)

1. (biology, medicine) A blister, vesicle, or other thin-walled cavity or lesion, as:
   1. (biology, medicine) (usually and especially) Such a blister that is more than 5 mm in diameter.

      Coordinate terms: vesicle, vesicula

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.
5. The tympanic part of a temporal bone (having a bubble-like appearance)

• bullous

bulla (countable and uncountable, plural bullas)

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

• bulla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• IPA^(key): /bʊllɐ/, /pʊllɐ/

bulla

1. two

Borrowed from Latin bulla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbulːɑ/, [ˈbulːɑ]
• Rhymes: -ulːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): bul‧la

bulla

1. bull (papal bull)

• IPA^(key): /by.la/

bulla

1. third-person singular past historic of buller

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʏtla/
• Rhymes: -ʏtla

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

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

• (talk nonsense): rugla, þvæla, þvaðra
• (boil): sjóða

• bullandi

• bull

bulla f (genitive singular bullu, nominative plural bullur)

1. a piston

• (piston): stimpill

bulla f (genitive singular bullu, nominative plural bullur)

1. a bully

• (bully): svoli

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bulla m (genitive singular bulla, nominative plural bullaí)

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

From Old Irish bulla, borrowed from Latin bulla.

bulla m (genitive singular bulla, nominative plural bullaí)

1. (Christianity) bull

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bulla m (genitive singular bulla, nominative plural bullaí)

1. (finance) bull

bulla m (genitive singular bulla, nominative plural bullaí)

1. Alternative form of bolla (“bowl”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “bulla”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 bulla”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• 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.

Possibly from Gaulish [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“swelling”)[1][2], same source as Middle Dutch puyl (“bag”) and Lithuanian bule (“buttocks”), or from *bʰel- (“to blow, inflate, swell”)[3][4]. Ultimately onomatopoeic.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbul.la/, [ˈbʊlːʲä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbul.la/, [ˈbulːä]

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

First-declension noun.

• Eastern Romance
  • Romanian: bulă
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Sicilian: buḍḍa
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: bole
• Venetian: bóła
• West Iberian
  • Old Portuguese:
    • Galician: bola
    • Portuguese: bolha
  • Old Spanish:
    • Spanish: bula
• → Catalan: butlla
• → English: bull, bulla
• → Galician: bula
• → Old Irish: bulla
  • Irish: bulla
• → Polish: bulla
• → Portuguese: bula
• → Old French: bulle, boille, boule, boulle, burle
  • Middle French: bulle
    • French: bulle
  • → Middle English: bulle
    • English: bull
    • Scots: bull, bul
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *bolla (merger with Frankish *bolla; see there for more descendants)

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

-búĺla

1. to be circumcised

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Borrowed from Latin bulla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbul.la/

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• Rhymes: -ulla
• Syllabification: bul‧la

bulla f

1. (Roman Catholicism) bull, papal bull; a document from the papal chancellery

Usually found in the noun phrase bulla papieska.

• bulla in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bulla in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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

• Syllabification: bu‧lla

bulla f (plural bullas)

1. rowdiness, racket, ruckus
2. (Andalusia) urgence

• bullanga
• embullar

• → Portuguese: bulha

bulla

1. inflection of bullir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “bulla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014