# bugia
## English
### Etymology

From New Latin bugia, from Medieval Latin candēla Bugiae, candēla dē Bugia (“candle from Bejaia (a seaport town in northeastern Algeria from which they were exported)”), a calque of Middle French chandelle de Bougie. Doublet of bougie.

### Noun

bugia (plural bugias)
* A liturgical candlestick held beside a Latin Catholic bishop or other prelate.
** 1853, J[ohn] D[uncan] Hilarius Dale, “Solemn Mass Sung by a Bishop in His Own Diocese”, in Ceremonial According to the Roman Rite. […] With the Pontifical Offices of a Bishop in His Own Diocese, Compiled from the “Cæremoniale Episcoporum.” […], London: Charles Dolman, […], →OCLC, article IV (The Pontifical Mass), pages 112–113:The Bishop having given his blessing to the Subdeacon, reads the Epistle, Gradual, Alleluia, Prose, and Gospel, after having said with joined hands the Munda cor meum, &c., and Dominus vobiscum: the book is supported by the Clerk, and the bugia held as usual.
** 2010, Richard L. Rotelli, “Seminary Years: 1962 – 1963”, in “Let Me Be a Light”: The Faith Journey of Father Ron Lawson, West Conshohocken, Pa.: Infinity Publishing, →ISBN, pages 149–150:Additionally, since the seminarians had to serve at Masses at various times for monsignors or bishops in the different seminary crypt chapels, they had to learn how to be a bugia-bearer.
** 2014, William C. Graham, “Bugia Bearers for the New Age”, in 100 Days Closer to Christ, Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, →ISBN, page 35:So, anyway, seeing the procession of young women with lighted phones in a darkened stairwell reminded me of all those bugia bearers bearing bugias. I hope they in that stairwell were and are as attentive to eternal truths as were those earliest prelates who prayed by the light from the bugia-borne candle.

### References

* ↑ John A[nthony] Hardon (1980) “Bugia”, in Modern Catholic Dictionary, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 74, column 2: “From Bugia, Latin for Bougie, Algeria, where wax was obtained.”
* ↑ “bugia, n.”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

### Further reading

* bugia (candlestick) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## Catalan
### Etymology

From Bugia (“Béjaïa”), a port in Algeria from which wax for candlemaking was imported, from Arabic بِجَايَة (bijāya), from Berber. The sense of "spark plug" is a semantic loan from French bougie which has the same origin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [buˈʒi.ə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [buˈd͡ʒi.a]

### Noun

bugia f (plural bugies)
* (obsolete) candle
    Synonym: espelma
* spark plug
    Synonym: bugia d'encesa

### Further reading

* “bugia” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Italian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Occitan bauzia, from Old Frankish *bausī (“deceit”) (possibly through a Vulgar Latin *bauscia (compare also Friulian bausie, Dalmatian bosca, Old French boisie), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bausuz (“puffed up, arrogant, bad”). Cognate with Dutch boos, German böse, English boast.

#### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -ia
* IPA: /buˈd͡ʒi.a/
** Hyphenation: bu‧gì‧a
* (Tuscan gorgia) IPA: /buˈʒi.a/
* Rhymes: -ia

#### Noun

bugia f (plural bugie)
* lie, untruth
    Synonyms: menzogna, falsità, fandonia, frottola
    dire bugie ― to tell lies
* (usually in the plural, northern Italy, chiefly Piedmont) type of dessert in the form of fritters dusted with sugar, eaten during Carnival time; similar to angel wings
    Synonyms: (Tuscany) cencio, (Lombardy) chiacchiera, crostolo, (Venice) galano, (central Italy) frappa, (Sardinia) meraviglia

##### Derived terms

* bugia pietosa
* bugiardo (see there for further derivations)
* bugiare
* le bugie hanno le gambe corte

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from French bougie.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /buˈd͡ʒi.a/
* Rhymes: -ia
* Hyphenation: bu‧gì‧a

#### Noun

bugia f (plural bugie)
* candleholder
    Synonyms: candeliere, candelabro, portacandela

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbu.d͡ʒa/
* Rhymes: -udʒa
* Hyphenation: bù‧gia

#### Adjective

bugia
* feminine singular of bugio

### Anagrams

* giuba