bubalus
See also: Bubalus
Latin
Etymology
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
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
- Piedmontese: bùfer
- Portuguese: búfalo
- Romanian: bour
- Sicilian: bùfalu
- Spanish: búfalo
- → English: buffalo
- Translingual: Bubalus
- → Proto-Slavic: *byvolъ (see there for further descendants)
- → Proto-Brythonic: *büβal (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Irish: búaball
- Irish: buabhall
References
- “bubalus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "bubalus", 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)
- bubalus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.