bugia

See also: Bugia

English

A bugia being held at a Solemn Pontifical Mass

A bugia as depicted in Costume of Prelates of the Catholic Church (1925) by John Abel Nainfa

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)

1. 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.

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^(key): (Central, Balearic) [buˈʒi.ə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [buˈd͡ʒi.a]

Noun

bugia f (plural bugies)

1. (obsolete) candle

   Synonym: espelma

2. 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^(key): /buˈd͡ʒi.a/
  • Hyphenation: bu‧gì‧a
• (Tuscan gorgia) IPA^(key): /buˈʒi.a/
• Rhymes: -ia

Noun

bugia f (plural bugie)

1. lie, untruth

   Synonyms: menzogna, falsità, fandonia, frottola

   dire bugie ― to tell lies

2. (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^(key): /buˈd͡ʒi.a/
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: bu‧gì‧a

Noun

bugia f (plural bugie)

1. candleholder

   Synonyms: candeliere, candelabro, portacandela

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.d͡ʒa/
• Rhymes: -udʒa
• Hyphenation: bù‧gia

Adjective

bugia

1. feminine singular of bugio

Anagrams

• giuba