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.[1]

• 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

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbubo/ [ˈbu.bo]
• Rhymes: -ubo
• Syllabification: bu‧bo

bubo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜓ)

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

bubo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜓ)

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

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.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈbubo/ [ˈbu.bo]
• Rhymes: -ubo
• Syllabification: bu‧bo

bubo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜓ)

1. round bamboo basket used as a fish trap

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /buˈbo/ [bʊˈbo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: bu‧bo

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)

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

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

bubò (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜓ)

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

   Synonym: molde

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

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /buˈboʔ/ [bʊˈboʔ]
• Rhymes: -oʔ
• Syllabification: bu‧bo

bubô (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜓ)

1. overflowing; pouring out

   Synonyms: buhos, salin, ligwak, huho

2. spilled; poured out accidentally

bubô (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜓ)

1. act of pouring out

   Synonyms: buhos, salin

2. spillage; act of spilling

   Synonym: ligwak

3. spilled material