bubo

English

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Etymology

Late Middle English, from Medieval Latin būbō, from Ancient Greek βουβών (boubṓn, “groin, swelling”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbjuː.bəʊ/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbu.boʊ/, /ˈbju.boʊ/
• Rhymes: -uːbəʊ

Noun

bubo (plural bubos or buboes)

1. (pathology) An inflamed swelling of a lymph node, especially in the armpit or groin, due to an infection such as bubonic plague, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, or syphilis.
   • 1661, Johann Jacob Wecker, Eighteen books of the secrets of art and nature: being the summe and substance of naturall philisophy ...‎, page 42:

     If a Bubo or Carbuncle appear, set on Leeches not far from it, if it be in an ignoble part; ...

Derived terms

• bubonic
• pseudobubo

Translations

Cebuano

Etymology 1

From Proto-Philippine *buqbuq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buqbuq.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bu‧bo
• IPA^(key): /ˈbuboʔ/,

Verb

bubo

1. to pour
2. to douse; to put out; to extinguish

Etymology 2

From Proto-Philippine *bubu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bubu, from Proto-Austronesian *bubu.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bu‧bo
• IPA^(key): /ˈbubo/,

Noun

bubo

1. a fish trap made of woven bamboo

Esperanto

Etymology

From German Bube (“boy, knave”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbubo/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: bu‧bo
• Rhymes: -ubo

Noun

bubo (accusative singular bubon, plural buboj, accusative plural bubojn)

1. urchin, waif, kid (living on street), gamin

   Hypernym: infano

   Hyponyms: bubaĉo, bubino

2. (card games) jack

See also

Playing cards in Esperanto · ludkartoj (layout · text)
aso	duo	trio	kvaro	kvino	seso	sepo
oko	naŭo	deko	fanto, bubo	damo	reĝo	ĵokero

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto bubo, German Bube.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.bo/

Noun

bubo (plural bubi)

1. urchin, waif, kid (living on street), gamin

   Hypernym: puero

   Hyponyms: bubacho, bubino, bubulo

Latin

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic, compare Ancient Greek βύας (búas), Bulgarian буч (buč), Old Armenian բու (bu), Persian بوف (buf), Arabic بُوم (būm), Classical Syriac ܒܐܘܐ (baʾwāʾ) and Caucasian languages such as Old Georgian ბუვი (buvi), Chechen бухӏа (buha), and Aghul бу́гьу (búhu), all meaning owls.

Alternative forms

• būfus (Late Latin)
• *gūfus (Vulgar Latin)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.boː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbu.bo/,

Noun

būbō m (genitive būbōnis); third declension

1. owl, especially the Eurasian eagle owl, Bubo bubo

Usage notes

Nearly always masculine, but used once as a feminine noun by Virgil in Aeneis IV:462:

hinc exaudiri voces et verba vocantis

visa viri, nox cum terras obscura teneret,

solaque culminibus ferali carmine bubo

saepe queri et longas in fletum ducere voces;

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• būbulō

Descendants

• Translingual: Bubo

Etymology 2

Medieval Latin; from Ancient Greek βουβών (boubṓn, “groin, swelling”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.boː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbu.bo/,

Noun

būbō m (genitive būbōnis); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) bubo

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Catalan: buba
• Galician: bouba
• Romanian: bubă (possibly)

Etymology 3

From būtiō (“bittern”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbu.boː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbu.bo/,

Verb

bubō (present infinitive bubere); third conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stem

1. to cry like a bittern

Conjugation

References

• “bubo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bubo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bubo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• bubo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “bubo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Schwentner, Ernst (1954) “Lat. būbō, būfō, gūfō”, in Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiete der Indogermanischen Sprachen, volume 72 1./2., →DOI, pages 120–123

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

bubo

1. vocative singular of buba

Tagalog

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /ˈbubo/,
• Rhymes: -ubo
• Hyphenation: bu‧bo

Etymology 1

Adjective

bubo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜓ)

1. Alternative spelling of bobo

Noun

bubo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜓ)

1. Alternative spelling of bobo

Etymology 2

From Proto-Philippine *bubu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bubu, from Proto-Austronesian *bubu₂. Cognate with Amis fofo, Ilocano bobo, Cebuano bubu, Malagasy vovo, Malay bubu, Bilba bufu, Buli (Indonesia) pup, and Pohnpeian uu.

Noun

bubo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜓ)

1. round bamboo basket used as a fish trap

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /buˈbo/,
• Rhymes: -o
• Hyphenation: bu‧bo

Noun

bubó (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜓ)

1. act of frightening and driving away a flock of birds

   Synonyms: bulabog, bulahaw

2. sudden flight of birds (after being frightened and driven away)

Derived terms

Pronunciation 3

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuboʔ/,
• Rhymes: -uboʔ
• Hyphenation: bu‧bo

Noun

bubò (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜓ)

1. casting; pouring into a mold
2. something formed in a mold

   Synonym: molde

Derived terms

Pronunciation 4

• IPA^(key): /buˈboʔ/,
• Rhymes: -oʔ
• Hyphenation: bu‧bo

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buqbuq (“pour”). Cognate with Kapampangan bubu, Cebuano bubu, and Javanese ꦧꦸꦧꦸꦃ (bubuh, “put in by accident”).

Adjective

bubô (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜓ)

1. overflowing; pouring out

   Synonyms: buhos, salin, ligwak, huho

2. spilled; poured out accidentally

Noun

bubô (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜓ)

1. act of pouring out

   Synonyms: buhos, salin

2. spillage; act of spilling

   Synonym: ligwak

3. spilled material

Derived terms