bugia

From New Latin bugia, from Medieval Latin candēla Bugiae, candēla dē Bugia (“candle from Bejaia (a seaport town in northeastern Algeria from which they were exported)”), a calque of Middle French chandelle de Bougie.^[1][2] Doublet of bougie.

bugia (plural bugias)

1. A liturgical candlestick held beside a Latin Catholic bishop or other prelate.
   • 1853, J[ohn] D[uncan] Hilarius Dale, “Solemn Mass Sung by a Bishop in His Own Diocese”, in Ceremonial According to the Roman Rite. […] With the Pontifical Offices of a Bishop in His Own Diocese, Compiled from the “Cæremoniale Episcoporum.” […], London: Charles Dolman, […], →OCLC, article IV (The Pontifical Mass), pages 112–113:

     The Bishop having given his blessing to the Subdeacon, reads the Epistle, Gradual, Alleluia, Prose, and Gospel, after having said with joined hands the Munda cor meum, &c., and Dominus vobiscum: the book is supported by the Clerk, and the bugia held as usual.

   • 2010, Richard L. Rotelli, “Seminary Years: 1962 – 1963”, in “Let Me Be a Light”: The Faith Journey of Father Ron Lawson, West Conshohocken, Pa.: Infinity Publishing, →ISBN, pages 149–150:

     Additionally, since the seminarians had to serve at Masses at various times for monsignors or bishops in the different seminary crypt chapels, they had to learn how to be a bugia-bearer.

   • 2014, William C. Graham, “Bugia Bearers for the New Age”, in 100 Days Closer to Christ, Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, →ISBN, page 35:

     So, anyway, seeing the procession of young women with lighted phones in a darkened stairwell reminded me of all those bugia bearers bearing bugias. I hope they in that stairwell were and are as attentive to eternal truths as were those earliest prelates who prayed by the light from the bugia-borne candle.

• bugia (candlestick) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Bugia (“Béjaïa”), a port in Algeria from which wax for candlemaking was imported, from Arabic بِجَايَة (bijāya), from Berber. The sense of "spark plug" is a semantic loan from French bougie which has the same origin.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [buˈʒi.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [buˈd͡ʒi.a]

bugia f (plural bugies)

1. (obsolete) candle

   Synonym: espelma

2. spark plug

   Synonym: bugia d'encesa

• “bugia”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Borrowed from Old Occitan bauzia, from Old Frankish *bausī (“deceit”) (possibly through a Vulgar Latin *bauscia (compare also Friulian bausie, Dalmatian bosca, Old French boisie), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bausuz (“puffed up, arrogant, bad”). Cognate with Dutch boos, German böse, English boast.

• Rhymes: -ia

• IPA^(key): /buˈd͡ʒi.a/
  • Hyphenation: bu‧gì‧a
• (Tuscan gorgia) IPA^(key): /buˈʒi.a/
• Rhymes: -ia

bugia f (plural bugie)

1. lie, untruth

   Synonyms: menzogna, falsità, fandonia, frottola

   dire bugie ― to tell lies

2. (usually in the plural, northern Italy, chiefly Piedmont) type of dessert in the form of fritters dusted with sugar, eaten during Carnival time; similar to angel wings

   Synonyms: (Tuscany) cencio, (Lombardy) chiacchiera, crostolo, (Venice) galano, (central Italy) frappa, (Sardinia) meraviglia

Borrowed from French bougie.

• IPA^(key): /buˈd͡ʒi.a/
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: bu‧gì‧a

bugia f (plural bugie)

1. candleholder

   Synonyms: candeliere, candelabro, portacandela

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.d͡ʒa/
• Rhymes: -udʒa
• Hyphenation: bù‧gia

bugia

1. feminine singular of bugio

• giuba