bufo

From translingual Bufo marinus (now Rhinella marina), the cane toad, from Latin būfo (“toad”).

bufo (plural bufos)

1. (Hawaii, slang) toad, frog

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Borrowed from Latin būfo (“toad”). Compare Italian buffone, Spanish bufón, Hawaiian English bufo.

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• IPA^(key): [ˈbufo]
• Rhymes: -ufo
• Hyphenation: bu‧fo

bufo (accusative singular bufon, plural bufoj, accusative plural bufojn)

1. toad

• ranido
• rano

From Latin būfo (“toad”).

bufo

1. toad

Probably loaned from a different Italic language such as Oscan, where the word could have referred to any creeping small animal such as a hamster. The connection with Proto-Slavic *žaba (“toad”) is uncertain, as the initial vowel cannot reflect a common Indo-European origin.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.foː/, [ˈbuːfoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbu.fo/, [ˈbuːfo]

būfō m (genitive būfōnis); third declension

1. a toad

Third-declension noun.

• English: bufo
• Italian: buffone
• Sicilian: buffa
• Spanish: bufón
• Translingual: Bufo

• “bufo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bufo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bufo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “bufo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuho/

bufo m

1. Alternative form of buho
   • c. 1275, Alfonso X, General Estoria, primera parte , (ed. by Pedro Sánchez Prieto-Borja, Alcalá de Henares: Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, 2002):

     Del comer de las aves. De las aves, que son otrossí las animalias del tercero elemento, les dixo assí, que nin comiessen águila [...] nin aztor nin bufo nin...

     On the eating of birds. Regarding birds, which are moreover the third element animals, He told them thus: they should not eat neither eagle, [...] nor goshawk, nor owl, nor...

• Hyphenation: bu‧fo

From Old Galician-Portuguese bufo, from Vulgar Latin *būfus (cognates include Spanish búho), itself either from Latin *būfō, from Faliscan *būfō, or more likely of onomatopoetic origin; cf. also Ancient Greek βοῦφος (boûphos). Compare to Latin būbō.

bufo m (plural bufos)

1. Eurasian eagle owl (Bubo bubo)

   Synonym: corujão

2. (Portugal, slang) police informant

   Synonyms: delator, informante

From Italian buffo (“comical”).

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1. (of an actor or plot) comical or burlesque

   Synonyms: burlesco, cómico

From bufar (“to puff”).

bufo m (plural bufos)

1. an instance of puffing

   Synonym: bufada

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bufo m (plural bufos)

1. buffo

bufo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of bufar.