bollo

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbo.ʎu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbo.ʎo]

bollo

1. first-person singular present indicative of bollar

• IPA^(key): /ˈbol.lo/
• Rhymes: -ollo
• Hyphenation: ból‧lo

From Latin bulla. Compare Sicilian buḍḍu.

bollo m (plural bolli)

1. stamp
2. seal
3. brand

• bollo postale (“postmark”)
• francobollo (“stamp”)

Deverbal from bollire +‎ -o.

bollo m (plural bolli)

1. (regional, North Italian) boil, boiling

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bollo

1. first-person singular present indicative of bollare

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bollo

1. first-person singular present indicative of bollire

Unknown, but traditionally associated with bola (“round seal”).^[1]

bollo m (plural *bollos)

1. bunch; heap (unshaped piece or mass). The meaning of this term is uncertain.
   • 1420, chapter III, in Álvaro Eans das Eiras, transl., Tratado de Albeitaria, translation of De Medicina Equorum by Giordano Ruffo, page 121:

     Reeras primeiramente os llonbos ou as rrens do Cauallo, depois faras pedamaço desta gisa, rreteras o pez, estendello as en pelle que posa cubrir os llonbos et as rreens dancho et de llongo, et depois fillaras duas ditas dramas de bollo armenico et do armonico et do pez grego et do galbano et do ençenço branco et dalmeçega et do sange do dagron et de agalla et de todas estas fillaras jgualmente tanto de huun como doutro et faras ende poo, et deste poo deitaras sobre llo pez da pelle, et seia o pez caente […]

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• Fala: bolu
• Galician: bolo
• Portuguese: bolo (see there for further descendants)

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “bol+o”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Inherited from Latin bulla.

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• Syllabification: bo‧llo

bollo m (plural bollos)

1. bun
2. (in clothing) puff, tuft
3. bump on the head

   Synonym: chichón

4. (colloquial) confusion, chaos

   Synonyms: confusión, alboroto

5. (colloquial, Cuba) vulva

bollo m or f (masculine and feminine plural bollos)

1. (colloquial, Spain) dyke, lesbian (related to lesbians)

   Synonym: bollera

   rollo bollo ― dyke fling/thing; dyke stylish

• “bollo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024