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4-letter words (1 found)

BUBO,

3-letter words (2 found)

BOB,BUB,

2-letter words (3 found)

BO,OB,OU,

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Definitions and meaning of bubo

bubo

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbjuː.bəʊ/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbu.boʊ/, /ˈbju.boʊ/
  • Rhymes: -uːbəʊ

Noun

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.

Derived terms

  • bubonic
  • pseudobubo

Translations

Cebuano

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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

Verb

bubo

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

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bubo

  1. a fish trap made of woven bamboo

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

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

Latin

Etymology 1

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.

Alternative forms

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

Derived terms
  • būbulō
Descendants
  • 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) bubo
Declension

Third-declension noun.

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

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. to cry like a bittern
Conjugation

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
  • 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

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

bubo

  1. vocative singular of buba

Tagalog

Pronunciation 1

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

Etymology 1

Adjective

bubo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜓ)

  1. Alternative spelling of bobo
Noun

bubo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜓ)

  1. Alternative spelling of bobo

Etymology 2

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.

Noun

bubo (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜓ)

  1. round bamboo basket used as a fish trap

Pronunciation 2

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

Noun

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)
Derived terms

Pronunciation 3

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

Noun

bubò (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜓ)

  1. casting; pouring into a mold
  2. something formed in a mold
    Synonym: molde
Derived terms

Pronunciation 4

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

Etymology

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

Adjective

bubô (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜓ)

  1. overflowing; pouring out
    Synonyms: buhos, salin, ligwak, huho
  2. spilled; poured out accidentally

Noun

bubô (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜓᜊᜓ)

  1. act of pouring out
    Synonyms: buhos, salin
  2. spillage; act of spilling
    Synonym: ligwak
  3. spilled material
Derived terms

Source: wiktionary.org