bubo

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbjuː.bəʊ/

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

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 ...‎, page 42:

     If a Bubo or Carbuncle appear, set on Leeches not far from it, if it be in an ignoble part; ...

• bubonic
• pseudobubo

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

• Hyphenation: bu‧bo
• IPA^(key): /ˈbuboʔ/, [ˈbu.bɔʔ]

bubo

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

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

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

bubo

1. a fish trap made of woven bamboo

From German Bube (“boy, knave”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbubo/

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• 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

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.

• būfus (Late Latin)
• *gūfus (Vulgar Latin)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.boː/, [ˈbuːboː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbu.bo/, [ˈbuːbo]

būbō m (genitive būbōnis); third declension

1. 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 noun.

• būbulō

• Translingual: Bubo

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.boː/, [ˈbuːboː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbu.bo/, [ˈbuːbo]

būbō m (genitive būbōnis); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) bubo

Third-declension noun.

• Catalan: buba
• Galician: bouba
• Romanian: bubă (possibly)

From būtiō (“bittern”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbu.boː/, [ˈbʊboː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbu.bo/, [ˈbuːbo]

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

1. to 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 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

bubo

1. vocative singular of buba

• Hyphenation: bu‧bo
• IPA^(key): /ˈbubo/, [ˈbu.bo]
• Rhymes: -ubo

bubo

1. Alternative spelling of bobo

bubo

1. Alternative spelling of bobo

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.

bubo

1. round bamboo basket used as a fish trap

• Hyphenation: bu‧bo
• IPA^(key): /buˈbo/, [bʊˈbo]
• Rhymes: -o

bubó

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)

• Hyphenation: bu‧bo
• IPA^(key): /ˈbuboʔ/, [ˈbu.boʔ]
• Rhymes: -uboʔ

bubò

1. casting; pouring into a mold
2. something formed in a mold

   Synonym: molde

• Hyphenation: bu‧bo
• IPA^(key): /buˈboʔ/, [bʊˈboʔ]
• Rhymes: -oʔ

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

bubô

1. overflowing; pouring out

   Synonyms: buhos, salin, ligwak, huho

2. spilled; poured out accidentally

bubô

1. act of pouring out

   Synonyms: buhos, salin

2. spillage; act of spilling

   Synonym: ligwak

3. spilled material