bubo

See also: Bubo, bubó, and boo-boo

English

Buboes on the leg of a patient with bubonic plague.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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 ...‎^[1], 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

inflamed lymph node

• Catalan: bubó m
• Finnish: imusolmukeajos, paise (fi)
• French: bubon (fr) m
• Ido: bubono (io)
• Irish: cearc ascaille f, loch ascaille m, scairt ascaille f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: bubão m
• Romanian: bubon (ro) n
• Russian: бубо́н (ru) m (bubón)
• Spanish: bubón m

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Cebuano

Pronunciation

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

Verb

bubo

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

Noun

bubo

1. a fish trap made of woven bamboo

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Esperanto

Etymology

From German Bube (“boy, knave”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

See also

Playing cards in Esperanto · ludkartoj (layout · text)
aso	duo	trio	kvaro	kvino	seso	sepo
oko	naŭo	deko	fanto, bubo	damo	reĝo	ĵokero

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Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto bubo, German Bube.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.bo/

Noun

bubo (plural bubi)

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

   Hypernym: puero

   Hyponyms: bubacho, bubino, bubulo

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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 (búhu).

Alternative forms

• *būfo (Vulgar Latin)

Pronunciation

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

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;

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	būbō	būbōnēs
Genitive	būbōnis	būbōnum
Dative	būbōnī	būbōnibus
Accusative	būbōnem	būbōnēs
Ablative	būbōne	būbōnibus
Vocative	būbō	būbōnēs

Derived terms

• būbulō

Descendants

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

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

būbō m (genitive būbōnis); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) Alternative form of būbōnēs

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	būbō	būbōnēs
Genitive	būbōnis	būbōnum
Dative	būbōnī	būbōnibus
Accusative	būbōnem	būbōnēs
Ablative	būbōne	būbōnibus
Vocative	būbō	būbōnēs

Etymology 3

From būtiō (“bittern”)

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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

1. I cry like a bittern

Conjugation

Conjugation of bubō (third conjugation, no supine stem, no perfect stem, active only)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	bubō	bubis	bubit	bubimus	bubitis	bubunt
	imperfect	bubēbam	bubēbās	bubēbat	bubēbāmus	bubēbātis	bubēbant
	future	bubam	bubēs	bubet	bubēmus	bubētis	bubent
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	bubam	bubās	bubat	bubāmus	bubātis	bubant
	imperfect	buberem	buberēs	buberet	buberēmus	buberētis	buberent
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	bube	—	—	bubite	—
	future	—	bubitō	bubitō	—	bubitōte	bubuntō
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		bubere	—	—	—	—	—
participles		bubēns	—	—	—	—	—
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		bubendī	bubendō	bubendum	bubendō	—	—

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 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