English

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

• bullous

Etymology 2

Noun

bulla ‎(countable and uncountable, plural bullas)

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

Darkinjung

Numeral

bulla

1. two

Finnish

(index b)

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin bulla.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bul‧la

Noun

bulla

1. bull (papal bull)

Declension

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

• (piston): ^def. stimpill
• (bully): ^def. svoli

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

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

Derived terms

• bullandi

Related terms

• bull

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, a borrowing 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

References

• "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.

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbul.la/, [ˈbʊl.la]

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, &c.
   2. (historical) a bulla: a protective (usually golden) amulet worn by upper-class Roman children
   3. (medieval, historical) a round metallic seal certifying official medieval documents, particularly the golden imperial seal and the leaden papal one.
3. (medieval) a papal bull or other official document sealed with a bulla

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

• bullā dignus (childish)
• bulliō
• bullō

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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “bulla”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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/

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

• embullar

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.