bunion

English

bunion

Alternative forms

• bunyon
• bunian, bunnion, bunnian (obsolete)

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

From alteration of earlier bunny (“lump, swelling”), from Middle English bony, boni (“bunion, swelling”), perhaps Italian bubbone (augmented form of bugno (“beehive”)), or more likely from Lombard bugnon (“bunyon”), all three from Old French bugne, buigne, bune (“bump, knob, swelling”), from Old Norse bunga (“an elevation, bulge”) or Frankish *bungjo (“a swelling, lump, bump”), both from Proto-Germanic *bungô, *bunkô (“lump, clump, heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognate with Dutch bonk (“lump, clump”), German Bunge (“swelling, tuber”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʌnjən/
• Rhymes: -ʌnjən
• Homophone: Bunyan

Noun

bunion (plural bunions)

1. (pathology) A bump or bulge on the first joint of the big toe caused by the swelling of a sac of fluid under the skin.
2. (colloquial, by extension) Hallux valgus, deviation of the big toe from its normal position towards the other toes, the prime cause for the swelling of its first joint.

Translations

bump on the big toe

• Catalan: galindó (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 拇囊炎 (mǔnángyán), 雞眼／鸡眼 (zh) (jīyǎn), 鸡眼 (zh) (jīyǎn)

• Dutch: hallux valgus
• Faroese: vírikur m
• Finnish: bunion
• French: oignon (fr)
• Galician: xoanete m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Ballenzehe f, Schiefzehe f
• Hungarian: bütyök (hu)
• Japanese: 外反母趾 (がいはんぼし, gaihanboshi)
• Portuguese: joanete (pt) m
• Russian: бурси́т (ru) m (bursít) (большо́го па́льца стопы́), ши́шка (ru) f (šíška) (на нару́жной стороне́ большо́го па́льца ноги́), вальгусная деформа́ция первого пальца стопы (válʹgusnaja deformácija pérvovo pálʹca stopý) f
• Spanish: juanete (es) m
• Swedish: liktorn

hallux valgus

• Finnish: vaivaisenluu (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Further reading

• bunion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek βούνῐον (boúnion).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.ni.on/, [ˈbuːniɔn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbu.ni.on/, [ˈbuːnion]

Noun

būnion n (genitive būniī); second declension

1. a type of turnip
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia [[s:la:Naturalis Historia/Liber XX#11

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]]:

Nāpōrum duās differentiās et in medicīnā Graecī servant. angulōsīs foliōrum caulibus, flōre anētī, quod būnion vocant, pūrgātiōnibus fēminārum et vēsīcae et ūrīnae ūtile dēcoctum, pōtum ex aquā mulsā vel sūcī drachmā; sēmen dysintericīs tostum trītumque in aquae calidae cyathīs quattuor. sed ūrīnam inhibet, sī nōn līnī sēmen ūna bibātur.

The Greeks also preserve two distinct types of turnip in medicine. Having angular leafstalks (and) a flower (like that) of dill, (the turnip) they call the “bunion” (is) useful boiled (and) drunk in mead or in a drachma of juice for women's purgings and for the bladder and for the urine; the seed, toasted and ground, in four ladlesful of warm water, (is useful) for people with dysentery. It prevents urination, however, if one (drachma) of linseed is not drunk.

1. (perhaps) earthnut,

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	būnion	būnia
Genitive	būniī	būniōrum
Dative	būniō	būniīs
Accusative	būnion	būnia
Ablative	būniō	būniīs
Vocative	būnion	būnia

Related terms

• būnias
• būnītus

Descendants

• Translingual:

References

• “būnĭon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• būnĭŏn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 231/3.
• “būnion” on page 245/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)