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bubo1

horned or eagle owl

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Where it lives

Commodus Antoninus 1 · 2.89/10k
Florida 2 · 2.54/10k
Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 3 · 0.69/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.52/10k
Naturalis Historia 20 · 0.5/10k
Pharsalia 2 · 0.39/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.37/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. bubo — de Vaan

bubo 'horned or eagle owl' [m. (f.) n] (Varro, Asellio+) Derivatives: bubu/ilare 'to say bit* (of the owl) (gloss.). Probably onomatopoeic for the sound [bu:] of the owl, as can be found in other IE languages: MoP bum *owl?, Gr. βύάς 'eagle-owl', Arm. bu *owl\ The noun bubo can be regarded as (quasi) reduplicated. Bibl.: WH I: 119, EM 77, IEW 97f. + — [de Vaan, s.v. bubo, p. 90]

2. būbo — Lewis & Short

būbo, ōnis, m. (f. only once

Verg. A. 4, 462; cf. Serv. ad loc.; Non. p. 194, 1.— Hence given erroneously by Prisc. p. 683 P. and Rhemn. Palaem. p. 1370

I fin. ib. as comm.) [bu/as, bu=za], an owl, the horned owl: Strix bubo, Linn., whose cry was considered as ill-boding, Plin. 10, 12, 16, § 34; Verg. A. 4, 462: ignavus bubo, Ov. M. 5, 550: profanus, id. ib. 6, 432 (cf. id. ib. 5, 543: profana avis): funereus, id. ib. 10, 453: Stygius (since Ascalaphus, son of Acheron or Styx, was changed to an owl; v. Ascalaphus), id. ib. 15, 791: rauci, id. Am. 1, 12, 19: bubone sinistro, Luc. 5, 396: trepidus, id. 6, 689: moestus, Sen. Med. 734: luctifer, id. Herc. Fur. 687: infaustus, Claud. in Eutr. 2, 407.

3. bŭbo — Lewis & Short

bŭbo, ĕre, v. n.,

I to cry like a bittern, Auct. Carm. Philom. 42 (al. butio).

4. bübö — Walde–Hofmann

bübö, -önis m. (f. vereinzelt seit Verg. nach noctua; in Gl. und rom. auch bafó, vl. durch Kreuzung mit ggfó „Eule“ [s. d.], nicht alte Dialektform nach Ernout El. dial. lat. 130f.), bábilo, -àre Anth., auch -%ö, dies rom.) „bu rufen, vom Uhu* (Thomas Stud. 39, Samuelsson Gl. 6, 239): gr. Bbäg m., füZa f. „Uhu*, güZw „schreie wie ein Uhu* (mhd. katze. nhd. Kauz bleibt trotz Zupitza Gutt. 81, Falk-Torp s. kyte fern, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. bübö, p. 151]

In the wild

bubonibus Ovid, Amores 1.12.19
buboni Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.37.p10
bubo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.12.p4
bubone Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 40.2
Bubon Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.27.p7
bubones Apuleius, Florida 13

6 of 44 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. bubo (scan p. 90; entry #159).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. bübö (scan p. 151; entry #450).

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