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bullesco

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Pronunciation

  • IPA (Classical): [bʊlˈleːs.koː][1]
  • IPA (Ecclesiastical): [bulˈlɛs.ko][1]

Forms

bullēscō (present infinitive bullēscere); third conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin bulla (“bubble”) + -ēscō, an inchoative verb, and Lewis & Short connect it with bullō.[2][3][1][4]

Earliest recorded meaning

It occurs only in Ampelius' Liber memorialis.[3][5]

Semantic evolution

It meant to bubble, form bubbles or globules.[2][3][5]

Meanings

Verb

  1. To bubble, form bubbles.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ a b c d Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  4. ^ Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  5. ^ a b Gaffiot, Félix (2016), Dictionnaire latin-français, new ed. by Gérard Gréco et al. (Gaffiot 2016), online ed.