le
/bi.jɛ/
Translation
ticket, banknote
Word origin
From Middle French billet, an alteration of bullette, a diminutive of bulle ('a sealed document'), from Latin bulla ('a seal, a rounded stud'). The sense of a small written slip broadened to the modern ticket and banknote. English took billet and bulletin from the same family.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- bulla
- English cognates
- bulletin, billet, bull
Grammar
Examples
J' .
I bought two tickets for the seven o'clock train.
' tendu euros .
He handed me a twenty-euro note without saying a word.
' .
Keep your ticket until you leave.
.
The tickets for the concert sold out in an hour.
.
She slipped a short note under the door.
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