The corpus record — Latin

bilbo

bilbo · v. n

to make a noise like that of a liquid agitated in a vessel

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What it meant

1. bilbo — Lewis & Short

bilbo, ĕre, v. n.onomatop.,

I to make a noise like that of a liquid agitated in a vessel: bilbit factum est a similitudine sonitus, qui fit in vase. Naevius Bilbit amphora inquit, Paul. ex Fest. p. 34 Müll. (Com. Trag. v. 124 Rib.): bilbit bombu/zei, Gloss.

2. bilbö — Walde–Hofmann

bilbö, -ere „bil bil machen, glucksen, vom Wasser" (Naev. bei Paul. Fest. 34): von einer Schallinterj. *bi bil (wie gluttio von glut glut) mit gebrochener Reduplikation. Schwentner 52. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. bilbö, p. 137]

Where it came from

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