Bubulcus

From Latin bubulcus (“herdsman”).

Bubulcus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Ardeidae – cattle egrets, native to Eurasia, now found in tropical to warm-temperate zones worldwide.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Reptilia – class; Aves – subclass; Neognathae – infraclass; Neoaves – superorder; Ciconiiformes – order; Ardeidae – family; Ardeinae – subfamily

• (genus): Bubulcus ibis (western cattle egret), Bubulcus coromandus (eastern cattle egret)

• Bubulcus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bubulcus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Bubulcus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, →ISBN

From bubulcus (“herdsman”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [bʊˈbʊɫ.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [buˈbul.kus]

Bubulcus m sg (genitive Bubulcī); second declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Gaius Junius Bubulcus Brutus, a Roman consul

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• “Bubulcus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray