billet

Meanings

Noun

Verb

  • To lodge soldiers, or guests, usually by order.
  • To lodge, or be quartered, in a private house.
  • To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge.

Origin

  • From Middle English bylet, from Anglo-Norman billette, from bille + -ette, from Latin bulla ("document").
  • From Middle French billette ("schedule"), from bullette, diminutive form of bulle, from Medieval Latin bulla, hence cognate with etymology 1 above.
  • From Middle English billet, bylet, belet, billette, from Old French billette, from bille, from Vulgar Latin *bilia, probably of Gaulish origin (compare Old Irish bile ("tree")).

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