bolus

From Late Latin bōlus (“clod of earth, lump”), plural bōlī, from Ancient Greek βῶλος (bôlos, “clod, lump”). Doublet of bole.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbəʊləs/

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  Rhymes: -əʊləs

bolus (plural boluses or (nonstandard) boli)

1. A round mass of something, especially of chewed food in the mouth or alimentary canal.
2. A single, large dose of a drug, especially one in that form.
   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

     I gave him a bolus, twice the size of a gooseberry.

bolus (third-person singular simple present boluses, present participle bolusing, simple past and past participle bolused)

1. (transitive) To administer (a drug) in bolus dosing, that is, dosing in (one or more) boluses.
2. (intransitive) To take a bolus (dose) of insulin at a mealtime in order to control one's blood glucose level in diabetes.

   Coordinate term: prebolus

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• Loubs, bouls, lobus

• IPA^(key): /ˈboː.lʏs/
• Hyphenation: bo‧lus

Generally regarded as borrowed from Yiddish [Term?], from Ladino [Term?], from Spanish bollo or bola.

bolus m (plural bolussen, diminutive bolusje n)

1. a sweet, soft pastry containing cinnamon from Zeeland, originating from European Jewish cuisine
2. (colloquial, Netherlands, by extension) a turd, a pat

• bole (dated)

Borrowed from Latin bōlus, from Ancient Greek βῶλος (bôlos).

bolus m or f (plural bolussen)

1. a type of fat clay

   Synonym: bool

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bolus

1. conditional of boli

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βόλος (bólos).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔː.lus]

bolus m (genitive bolī); second declension

1. A throw (of the dice); a cast (of a fishing net)
2. A gain, profit, or advantage

Second-declension noun.

• “bolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers