different between missive vs bulletin

English

Etymology

15th Century; from Medieval Latin missivus, from mittere (“to send”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?m?s?v/

Noun

missive (plural missives)

1. (formal) A written message; a letter, note or memo.
   • 2008, Claire Armistead, The Guardian, 25 Oct 2008:

     The Madonna letters, which are interspersed with more personal missives in this curious epistolary memoir, accumulate into a rap about the downsides of celebrity - the problems of ageing, of invaded privacy, of becoming vain and impetuously adopting children from other continents.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 71:

     "Curses throttle thee!" yelled Ahab. "Captain Mayhew, stand by now to receive it"; and taking the fatal missive from Starbuck's hands, he caught it in the slit of the pole, and reached it over towards the boat.

2. (in the plural, Scotland, law) Letters sent between two parties in which one makes an offer and the other accepts it.
3. (obsolete) One who is sent; a messenger.
   • c. 1606: Macbeth by Shakespeare

     Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it came missives from the King, who all hailed me ‘Thane of Cawdor,’ by which title these Weird Sisters saluted me and referred me to the coming on of time with ‘Hail king that shalt be.’

Translations

Adjective

missive (not comparable)

1. Specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent.

   a letter missive

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ayliffe to this entry?)

2. (obsolete) Serving as a missile; intended to be thrown.
   • 1700, John Dryden, Cymon And Iphigenia

     The missive weapons fly.

Related terms

• See mission for terms etymologically related to send

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “missive”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

French

Pronunciation

Noun

missive f (plural missives)

1. missive

Italian

Noun

missive f

1. plural of missiva

English

Etymology

From French bulletin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?l?t?n/, /?b?l?t?n/

Noun

bulletin (plural bulletins)

1. A short report, especially one released through official channels to be broadcast or publicized.
2. A short news report.
3. A short printed publication, especially one produced by an organization.

Derived terms

• bulletin board

Translations

Verb

bulletin (third-person singular simple present bulletins, present participle bulletining, simple past and past participle bulletined)

1. To announce something by means of such a report or publication.

Translations

French

Etymology

From Old French bullette + diminutive suffixes -in, or possibly a borrowing from Italian bollettino.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /byl.t??/

Noun

bulletin m (plural bulletins)

1. bulletin
2. newsletter
3. report card, school report

Derived terms

• bulletin de vote
• bulletin scolaire
• système des bulletins électroniques

Further reading

• “bulletin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

bulletin m (definite singular bulletinen, indefinite plural bulletiner, definite plural bulletinene)

1. alternative form of bulleteng

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

bulletin m (definite singular bulletinen, indefinite plural bulletinar, definite plural bulletinane)

1. alternative form of bulleteng