bulletin: [17] If a bullet is etymologically a ‘little ball’, a bulletin is a ‘little little edict’. It comes via French bulletin from Italian bulletino, which was a diminutive form of bulletta ‘document, voting slip’ (briefly introduced into English in the 17th century as bullet: ‘Elected by the Great Master and his Knights, who give their voices by bullets’, George Sandys, Travels 1615); French billet ‘letter’, and indeed English billet, as in ‘billeting’ soldiers on a house, are parallel formations on a variant of the root of bulletta.
And to return to bulletta, this was itself a diminutive form of bulla, from medieval Latin bulla ‘sealed document’, which is the source of English bull, as in ‘papal bull’. => billet, bull
bulletin (n.)
1765, from French bulletin (16c.), modeled on Italian bulletino, diminutive of bulletta "document, voting slip," itself a diminutive of Latin bulla (see bull (n.2)) with equivalent of Old French -elet (see -let). The word was used earlier in English in the Italian form (mid-17c.). Popularized by their use in the Napoleonic Wars as the name for dispatches sent from the front and meant for the home public (which led to the proverbial expression as false as a bulletin). Bulletin board is from 1831.
雙語例句
1. The Internet is the largest computer bulletin board in the world.
因特網是世界上最大的計算機公告系統。
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2. We'll be going live to Nottingham later in this bulletin.
在本次新聞快報中,我們稍后將有來自諾丁漢的現場報道.
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3. Try browsing around in the network bulletin boards.
試著在網絡論壇上瀏覽信息。
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4. She has posted photographs on bulletin boards.
她已把照片貼在了公告牌上。
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5. Bulletin boards charted each executive's progress.