bufo

From translingual Bufo marinus (now Rhinella marina), the cane toad, from Latin būfō (“toad”).

bufo (plural bufos)

1. (Hawaii, slang) toad, frog

• IPA^(key): /buˈfo/
• Hyphenation: bu‧fo

bufó f 

1. camel fat

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “bufo”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

bufo

1. first-person singular present indicative of bufar

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Borrowed from Latin būfo (“toad”). Compare Italian buffone, Spanish bufón, Hawaiian English bufo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbufo/

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• Rhymes: -ufo
• Hyphenation: bu‧fo

bufo (accusative singular bufon, plural bufoj, accusative plural bufojn)

1. toad

• ranido
• rano

From Latin būfo (“toad”).

bufo

1. toad

bufo

1. first-person singular present indicative of bufar

Probably loaned from a different Italic language such as Oscan, where the word could have referred to any creeping small animal such as a hamster. The connection with Proto-Slavic *žaba (“toad”) is uncertain, as the initial vowel cannot reflect a common Indo-European origin. Per Vasmer cognate with Latin bōs, bovis, reflecting an ancient folk belief that toads — like other animals — were thought to steal milk from livestock. Compare typologically Latin caprimulgus, Proto-Slavic *(s)mъlžь (< Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-, whence also English milk).

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būfō m (genitive būfōnis); third declension

1. a toad

Third-declension noun.

• English: bufo
• Italian: buffone
• Sicilian: buffa
• Spanish: bufón
• Translingual: Bufo
• → Middle Irish: bufa
  • Irish: buaf
  • Manx: beayf

• “bufo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bufo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bufo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “bufo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuho/

bufo m

1. alternative form of buho
   • c. 1275, Alfonso X, General Estoria, primera parte, (ed. by Pedro Sánchez Prieto-Borja, Alcalá de Henares: Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, 2002):

     Del comer de las aves. De las aves, que son otrossí las animalias del tercero elemento, les dixo assí, que nin comiessen águila nin aztor nin bufo nin...

     On the eating of birds. Regarding birds, which are moreover the third element animals, He told them thus: they should not eat neither eagle, nor goshawk, nor owl, nor...

• Hyphenation: bu‧fo

From Old Galician-Portuguese bufo, from Late Latin būfus (cognates include Spanish búho), itself either from Latin *būfō, from Faliscan *būfō, or more likely of onomatopoetic origin; cf. also Ancient Greek βοῦφος (boûphos). Compare to Latin būbō.

bufo m (plural bufos)

1. Eurasian eagle owl (Bubo bubo)

   Synonym: corujão

2. (Portugal, colloquial) informant, snitch

   Synonyms: (Portugal, colloquial) chibo, delator, informante

From Italian buffo (“comical”).

bufo (feminine bufa, masculine plural bufos, feminine plural bufas)

1. (of an actor or plot) comical or burlesque

   Synonyms: burlesco, cómico

Deverbal from bufar.

bufo m (plural bufos)

1. an instance of puffing

   Synonym: bufada

bufo

1. first-person singular present indicative of bufar

• IPA^(key): /ˈbufo/
• Rhymes: -ufo
• Syllabification: bu‧fo

Borrowed from Italian buffo.

bufo m (plural bufos)

1. buffo

bufo

1. first-person singular present indicative of bufar

bufo

1. (Rioplatense, colloquial) clipping of bufoso

• “bufo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 10 December 2024