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Latin
Etymology
From bōs (“ox”) + -bulcus (“-herd”), likely by analogy of subulcus.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
bubulcus m (genitive bubulcī); second declension
- herdsman, ox-driver, cowherd
- ploughman
- rustic
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “bōs”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 75
- “bubulcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “bubulcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- bubulcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “bubulcus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray