bubalus

See also: Bubalus

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos, “buffalo”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.ba.lus/, [ˈbuːbäɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbu.ba.lus/, [ˈbuːbälus]

Noun

būbalus m (genitive būbalī); second declension

1. antelope, gazelle
2. wild ox, buffalo

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	būbalus	būbalī
Genitive	būbalī	būbalōrum
Dative	būbalō	būbalīs
Accusative	būbalum	būbalōs
Ablative	būbalō	būbalīs
Vocative	būbale	būbalī

Descendants

• Catalan: brúfol → búfal (learned)
• Neapolitan: vufero
• Old Italian: buffalo
  • Italian: bufalo
  • → Old French: buffle
    • French: buffle
    • → Middle High German: büffel
      • German: Büffel
    • → Middle Low German: buffel
      • → Danish: bøffel
    • → Middle Dutch: buffel
      • Dutch: buffel
        • Afrikaans: buffel
• Piedmontese: bùfer
• Portuguese: búfalo
• Romanian: bour
• Sicilian: bùfalu
• Spanish: búfalo
  • → English: buffalo
• Translingual: Bubalus
  • → Catalan: búbal
  • → Spanish: búbalo
  • → English: bubale
• → Proto-Slavic: *byvolъ (see there for further descendants)
• → Proto-Brythonic: *büβal (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Irish: búaball
  • Irish: buabhall

References

• “bubalus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bubalus 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)
• bubalus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.