bubo

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbjuː.bəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbu.boʊ/, /ˈbju.boʊ/
• Rhymes: -uːbəʊ

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; ...

• bubonic

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈbu.bo/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈbu.bu/
• Hyphenation: bu‧bo

bubo

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

bubo

1. a fish trap made of woven bamboo

From German Bube (“boy, knave”).

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

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

Borrowed from Esperanto bubo, German Bube.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.bo/

bubo (plural bubi)

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

   Hypernym: puero

   Hyponyms: bubacho, bubino, bubulo

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]

• *būfo (Vulgar Latin)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.boː/

būbō m (genitive būbōnis); third declension

1. an owl, especially the Eurasian eagle owl, Bubo bubo.

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;

Third declension.

• būbulō

• Romanian: buhă
• Spanish: búho
• Translingual: Bubo

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.boː/

būbō m (genitive būbōnis); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) Alternative form of būbōnēs

From būtiō (“bittern”)

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

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

1. I cry like a bittern

• 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