βουβών
See also: Βουβών
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- βομβών (bombṓn) (possibly)
Etymology
Unknown; possibly Pre-Greek. Alternatively from a Proto-Indo-European expressive root *bew-, *bow- (“to swell; ball”); see βῠβός (bubós, “full, great”), βου- (bou-, augmentative prefix), βουνός (bounós, “hill, mound; clot”), βοῦᾰ (boûa, “group of children; herd?”), βῶλος (bôlos, “clod”), βολβός (bolbós, “bulb”), but these cannot be regular morphological derivations of the same root.
Noun
βουβών • (boubṓn) m (genitive βουβῶνος); third declension
- groin, abdomen
- (pathology) a bubo in the groin (a swelling of lymph nodes due to infection)
Declension
Third declension of ὁ βουβών; τοῦ βουβῶνος (Attic)
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ βουβών ho boubṓn | τὼ βουβῶνε tṑ boubône | οἱ βουβῶνες hoi boubônes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ βουβῶνος toû boubônos | τοῖν βουβώνοιν toîn boubṓnoin | τῶν βουβώνων tôn boubṓnōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ βουβῶνῐ tôi boubôni | τοῖν βουβώνοιν toîn boubṓnoin | τοῖς βουβῶσῐ / βουβῶσῐν toîs boubôsi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν βουβῶνᾰ tòn boubôna | τὼ βουβῶνε tṑ boubône | τοὺς βουβῶνᾰς toùs boubônas | ||||||||||
| Vocative | βουβών boubṓn | βουβῶνε boubône | βουβῶνες boubônes | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: būbō, būbōnēs
References
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “βουβών”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 230
- “βουβών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βουβών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “βουβών”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- βουβών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βουβών in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- βουβών in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- βουβών in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- bubo in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911