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bubo

See also: Bubo, bubó, and boo-boo

English

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Buboes on the leg of a patient with bubonic plague.

Etymology

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

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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 ...‎[1], page 42:
      If a Bubo or Carbuncle appear, set on Leeches not far from it, if it be in an ignoble part; ...

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Translations

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Cebuano

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Etymology 1

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

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbuʔboʔ/ [ˈbuʔ.boʔ]
  • Hyphenation: bu‧bo

Verb

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bùbò

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

Etymology 2

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

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbubo(ʔ)/ [ˈbu.bo(ʔ)]
  • Hyphenation: bu‧bo

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bubo or bubò

  1. box-like trap woven from bamboo slats allowing entrance but no egress, used to catch fish or monkeys

Esperanto

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Etymology

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From German Bube (“boy, knave”).

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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

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

Ido

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Esperanto bubo, German Bube.

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bubo (plural bubi)

  1. urchin, waif, kid (living on street), gamin
    Hypernym: puero
    Hyponyms: bubacho, bubino, bubulo

Latin

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būbō (horned owl)

Etymology 1

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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.[1]

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būbō m (genitive būbōnis); third declension

  1. owl, especially the Eurasian eagle owl, Bubo bubo
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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;
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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative būbō būbōnēs
genitive būbōnis būbōnum
dative būbōnī būbōnibus
accusative būbōnem būbōnēs
ablative būbōne būbōnibus
vocative būbō būbōnēs
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  • Translingual: Bubo

Etymology 2

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

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būbō m (genitive būbōnis); third declension

  1. (Medieval Latin) bubo
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Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative būbō būbōnēs
genitive būbōnis būbōnum
dative būbōnī būbōnibus
accusative būbōnem būbōnēs
ablative būbōne būbōnibus
vocative būbō būbōnēs
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Etymology 3

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From būtiō (“bittern”).

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Verb

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

  1. to cry like a bittern
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   Conjugation of bubō (third conjugation, no supine stem, no perfect stem, active only)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present bubō bubis bubit bubimus bubitis bubunt
imperfect bubēbam bubēbās bubēbat bubēbāmus bubēbātis bubēbant
future bubam bubēs bubet bubēmus bubētis bubent
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present bubam bubās bubat bubāmus bubātis bubant
imperfect buberem buberēs buberet buberēmus buberētis buberent
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — bube — — bubite —
future — bubitō bubitō — bubitōte bubuntō
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives bubere — — — — —
participles bubēns — — — — —
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
bubendī bubendō bubendum bubendō — —

References

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  • “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
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 76

Serbo-Croatian

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bubo

  1. vocative singular of buba

Tagalog

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Etymology 1

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bubo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜓ)

  1. Alternative form of bobo (“foolish, stupid”)

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bubo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜓ)

  1. Alternative form of bobo (“fool, idiot”)

Etymology 2

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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.

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bubo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜓ)

  1. round bamboo basket used as a fish trap

Etymology 3

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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)
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Etymology 4

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “possibly related to Etymology 5 "spill"?”)

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bubò (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜓ)

  1. casting; pouring into a mold
  2. something formed in a mold
    Synonym: molde
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Etymology 5

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

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bubô (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜓ)

  1. overflowing; pouring out
    Synonyms: buhos, salin, ligwak, huho
  2. spilled; poured out accidentally

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bubô (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜓ)

  1. act of pouring out
    Synonyms: buhos, salin
  2. spillage; act of spilling
    Synonym: ligwak
  3. spilled material
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