bubo

See also: Bubo, bubó, and boo-boo

English

Buboes on the leg of a patient with bubonic plague.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

bubo (plural buboes)

  1. (pathology) An inflamed swelling of a lymph node, especially in the armpit or the 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

Translations

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: bu‧bo

Verb

bubo

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

Noun

bubo

  1. a fish trap made of woven bamboo

Esperanto

Etymology

From German Bube (“boy, knave”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

  1. urchin, waif, kid (living on street), gamin
  2. (card games) jack

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

  • bubaĉo (“rascal, rogue”)
  • bubino (“female urchin”)

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

From Esperanto, from German Bube (“boy, knave”).

Noun

bubo (plural bubi)

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

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

  • bubacho (“rascal, rogue”)
  • bubulo (“male urchin”)
  • bubino (“female urchin”)

Latin

būbō (horned owl)

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *b(e)u (“owl”), see also Ancient Greek βύας (búas), Bulgarian буч (buč), Old Armenian բուէճ (buēč), and North Persian بوم‎ (bum). The Indo-European root is onomatopoeic and was borrowed into Semitic languages such as Arabic بُوم‎ (būm) and Classical Syriac ܒܐܘܐ‎ (baʾwāʾ) and Caucasian languages such as Old Georgian ბუვი (buvi), Chechen бухӏа (buha), and Aghul бу́гьу.[1]

Alternative forms

  • *būfo (Vulgar Latin)

Pronunciation

Noun

būbō m (genitive būbōnis); third declension

  1. an 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;
Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative būbō būbōnēs
genitive būbōnis būbōnum
dative būbōnī būbōnibus
accusative būbōnem būbōnēs
ablative būbōne būbōnibus
vocative būbō būbōnēs
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Romanian: buhă
  • Spanish: búho
  • Translingual: Bubo

References

  1. ↑ Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, Mallory, Adams

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

Noun

būbō m (genitive būbōnis); third declension

  1. (Medieval Latin) Alternative form of būbōnēs

Etymology 3

From būtiō (“bittern”)

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbu.boː/, [ˈbʊ.boː]

Verb

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

  1. I cry like a bittern.

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, 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
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