Latin

Noun

bulga f ‎(genitive bulgae); first declension

1. knapsack
2. wallet, purse
3. (informal) womb

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

• Old French: boulge, bouge; bougette
  • French: bouge
  • Middle English: bulge, boulge, bouge (sheepskin), bogett, bouget, bowgette
    • English: bulge, budget, budge (sheepskin)
  • Italian: bolgia

References

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