Translingual

Proper noun

Bubo m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Strigidae – horned owls, eagle owls and fish owls.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Aves - class; Saurornithes - informal group; Ornithothoraces, Ornithurae - clades; Carinatae - subclass; Neornithes - infraclass; Neognathae - parvclass; Strigiformes - order; Strigidae - family; Striginae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Bubo bubo (Eurasian eagle owl) - type species; for other species see Bubo on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

References

• Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0691128276

English

Buboes on the leg of a patient with bubonic plague.

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

• bubonic

Translations

Esperanto

Etymology

From German Bube ‎(“boy, knave”).

Noun

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

1. wicked boy
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

Borrowing from German Bube.

Noun

bubo (plural bubi)

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

Derived terms

• bubacho ‎(“rascal, rogue”)

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.boː/

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.

Derived terms

• būbulō

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.boː/

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/

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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “bubo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• bubo in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers