# bufo
## English
### Etymology

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

### Noun

bufo (plural bufos)
* (Hawaii, slang) toad, frog

## Afar
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /buˈfo/ [bʊˈfɔ]
* Hyphenation: bu‧fo

### Noun

bufó f
* camel fat

#### Declension
### References

* E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “bufo”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

## Catalan
### Verb

bufo
* first-person singular present indicative of bufar

## Esperanto
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbufo]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ufo
* Hyphenation: bu‧fo

### Noun

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

#### See also

* ranido
* rano

## Friulian
### Etymology

From Latin būfo (“toad”).

### Noun

bufo
* toad

## Galician
### Verb

bufo
* first-person singular present indicative of bufar

## Latin
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

būfō m (genitive būfōnis); third declension
* a toad

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* English: bufo
* Italian: buffone
* Sicilian: buffa
* Spanish: bufón
* Translingual: Bufo
* → Middle Irish: bufa
** Irish: buaf
** Manx: beayf

### References

* “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
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “bufo”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 76

## Old Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbuho/

### Noun

bufo m
* 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...

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbu.fu/
* Hyphenation: bu‧fo

### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese bufo, from Late 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.

#### Noun

bufo m (plural bufos)
* Eurasian eagle owl (Bubo bubo)
    Synonym: corujão
* (Portugal, colloquial) informant, snitch
    Synonyms: (Portugal, colloquial) chibo, delator, informante

### Etymology 2

From Italian buffo (“comical”).

#### Adjective

bufo (feminine bufa, masculine plural bufos, feminine plural bufas)
* (of an actor or plot) comical or burlesque
    Synonyms: burlesco, cómico

### Etymology 3

Deverbal from bufar.

#### Noun

bufo m (plural bufos)
* an instance of puffing
    Synonym: bufada

### Etymology 4
#### Verb

bufo
* first-person singular present indicative of bufar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbufo/ [ˈbu.fo]
* Rhymes: -ufo
* Syllabification: bu‧fo

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian buffo.

#### Noun

bufo m (plural bufos)
* buffo

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

bufo
* first-person singular present indicative of bufar

### Etymology 3
#### Contraction

bufo
* (Rioplatense, colloquial) Clipping of bufoso.

### Further reading

* “bufo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10