βουβών

See also: Βουβών

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

βομβών (bombṓn) (possibly)

Etymology

Unknown; possibly Pre-Greek. Alternatively from a Proto-Indo-European expressive root *bew-, *bow- (“to swell; ball”); see βῠβός (bŭbós, “full, great”), βου- (bou-, augmentative prefix), βουνός (bounós, “hill, mound; clot”), βοῦᾰ (boûă, “group of children; herd?”), βῶλος (bôlos, “clod”), βολβός (bolbós, “bulb”), but these cannot be regular morphological derivations of the same root.

Noun

βουβών • (boubṓn) m (genitive βουβῶνος); third declension

groin, abdomen
(pathology) a bubo in the groin (a swelling of lymph nodes due to infection)

Declension

Third declension of ὁ βουβών; τοῦ βουβῶνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βουβών ho boubṓn	τὼ βουβῶνε tṑ boubône	οἱ βουβῶνες hoi boubônes
Genitive	τοῦ βουβῶνος toû boubônos	τοῖν βουβώνοιν toîn boubṓnoin	τῶν βουβώνων tôn boubṓnōn
Dative	τῷ βουβῶνῐ tôi boubônĭ	τοῖν βουβώνοιν toîn boubṓnoin	τοῖς βουβῶσῐ / βουβῶσῐν toîs boubôsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν βουβῶνᾰ tòn boubônă	τὼ βουβῶνε tṑ boubône	τοὺς βουβῶνᾰς toùs boubônăs
Vocative	βουβών boubṓn	βουβῶνε boubône	βουβῶνες boubônes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

→ Latin: būbō, būbōnēs

References

Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βουβών”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 230
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“βουβών”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
βουβών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
βουβών in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
βουβών in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
βουβών in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
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