billet

billet · noun¹

1. Latin · derived frombulla“document”
2. Middle English · derived frombylet
3. English todaybillet

From Middle English bylet, from Anglo-Norman billette (“list, schedule”), from bille + -ette, from Latin bulla (“document”).

billet · noun, verb²

1. Medieval Latin · derived frombulla
2. Middle French · derived frombillette“schedule”
3. English todaybillet

From Middle French billette (“schedule”), from bullette, diminutive form of bulle (“document”), from Medieval Latin bulla, hence cognate with etymology 1 above.

billet · noun³

1. Vulgar Latin · derived from*bilia
2. Old French · derived frombillette
3. Middle English · inherited frombillet
4. English todaybillet

From Middle English billet, bylet, belet, billette, from Old French billette, from bille (“log, tree trunk”), from Vulgar Latin *bilia, probably of Gaulish origin (compare Old Irish bile (“tree”)).

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