bubalus

See also: Bubalus

Latin

Etymology

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Ancient Greek [Term?]?

Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos)bor.

Latin būbalus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos, “buffalo”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbuː.ba.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbuː.ba.lus]

Noun

būbalus m (genitive būbalī); second declension

1. antelope, gazelle
2. wild ox, buffalo

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	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, buffalo (archaic), bufolo (regional)
    • → Old French: buffle
      • French: buffle
      • → Middle High German: büffel
        • German: Büffel
      • → Middle Low German: buffel
        • Plautdietsch: Beffel
        • → Danish: bøffel
      • → Middle Dutch: buffel
        • Dutch: buffel
          • Afrikaans: buffel
          • → Sranan Tongo: bofru
            • → Lokono: boforo
• 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: *bʉβal (see there for further descendants)
• → Middle Irish: búaball
  • Irish: buabhall
  • Scottish Gaelic: buabhall

References

• “bubalus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "bubalus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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.