bubalus

See also: Bubalus

Latin

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Ancient Greek [Term?]?

Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos)bor.

Latin būbalus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos, “buffalo”).

būbalus m (genitive būbalī); second declension

Second-declension noun.

Catalan: brúfol → búfal (learned)
Neapolitan: vufero
Old Italian: buffalo
- Italian: bufalo, buffalo (archaic), bufolo (regional)
  - → Old French: buffle
    - French: buffle
    - → Middle High German: büffel
      - German: Büffel
    - → Middle Low German: buffel
      - Plautdietsch: Beffel
      - → Danish: bøffel
    - → Middle Dutch: buffel
      - Dutch: buffel
        Afrikaans: buffel
        → Sranan Tongo: bofru
        → Lokono: boforo
Piedmontese: bùfer
Portuguese: búfalo
Romanian: bour
Sicilian: bùfalu
Spanish: búfalo
- → English: buffalo
Translingual: Bubalus
- → Catalan: búbal
- → Spanish: búbalo
- → English: bubale
→ Proto-Slavic: *byvolъ (see there for further descendants)
→ Proto-Brythonic: *bʉβal (see there for further descendants)
→ Old Irish: búaball
- Irish: buabhall

“bubalus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
"bubalus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, 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.