bubulcus

See also: Bubulcus

Latin

Etymology

From bōs (“ox”) +‎ -bulcus (“-herd”), likely by analogy of subulcus.^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /buˈbul.kus/, [bʊˈbʊɫ̪kʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /buˈbul.kus/, [buˈbulkus]

Noun

bubulcus m (genitive bubulcī); second declension

1. herdsman, ox-driver, cowherd
2. ploughman
3. rustic

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	bubulcus	bubulcī
genitive	bubulcī	bubulcōrum
dative	bubulcō	bubulcīs
accusative	bubulcum	bubulcōs
ablative	bubulcō	bubulcīs
vocative	bubulce	bubulcī

Derived terms

• bubulcitō

Related terms

• bobsequa
• bōs
• bovārius
• bovātim
• bovicīdium
• bovīlla
• bovīllus
• bovīnus
• būbalus
• būbīle
• Būbōna
• bubsequa
• būbula
• bubulcārius
• būbulīnus
• būbulus
• būsequa

 

Descendants

• Italian: bifolco
• → Albanian: bujk

References

1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “bōs”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 75

• “bubulcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bubulcus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bubulcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “bubulcus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray