búfalo
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Late Latin būfalus, from Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos, “antelope, wild ox”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]búfalo m (plural búfalos, feminine búfala, feminine plural búfalas)
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Late Latin bufalus, from Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos, “antelope, wild ox”).
Noun
[edit]búfalo m (plural búfalos, feminine búfala, feminine plural búfalas)
- buffalo (Old World bovine)
- buffalo, the American bison
- Synonym: bisonte americano
Hyponyms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]búfalo
- second-person singular imperative of bufar combined with lo
Further reading
[edit]- “búfalo”, 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
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- Portuguese terms borrowed from Late Latin
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/ufalu
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ufalu/3 syllables
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ufɐlu
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ufɐlu/3 syllables
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- pt:Bovines
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ufalo
- Rhymes:Spanish/ufalo/3 syllables
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- Spanish countable nouns
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- es:Bovines