< Reconstruction:Latin
Reconstruction:Latin/bufus
Latin
Alternative forms
- *gūfus
Etymology
Onomatopoeic most likely, based on būbō (“owl”). Otherwise from unattested *būfō (“owl”), from Faliscan *būfō (“owl”) but the probability for a regional Faliscan term surviving up to Vulgar Latin of the 3rd to 6th centuries CE, despite Faliscan becoming extinct in the 2nd century BCE, is rather low. Perhaps borrowed from Ancient Greek βοῦφος (boûphos, “eagle owl”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Proto-Romance) /ˈbufʊs/
Noun
*būfus m (oblique *būfum); second declension
- owl
Descendants
- Aromanian: buf, bufu
- Galician: bufo
- Megleno-Romanian: buf
- Portuguese: bufo
- Romanian: buf
- Old Spanish: buho
- Spanish: búho
- → Albanian: buf
- → Byzantine Greek: μποῦφος (mpoûphos)
- Greek: μπούφος (boúfos)