bugio

Esperanto

Etymology

From English boogie, of uncertain origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [buˈɡio]
• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: bu‧gi‧o

Noun

bugio (uncountable, accusative bugion)

1. (music) boogie-woogie

Italian

Etymology

Perhaps a confluence of buco and pertugio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.d͡ʒo/
• Rhymes: -udʒo
• Hyphenation: bù‧gio

Adjective

bugio (feminine bugia, masculine plural bugi, feminine plural bugie or buge)

1. (obsolete) hollow

   Synonyms: bucato, cavo

   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso, Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XX, page 360, lines 25–27:

     così, rimosso d'aspettare indugio, ¶ quel mormorar de l'aguglia salissi ¶ su per lo collo, come fosse bugio.

     Even thus, relieved from the delay of waiting, that murmuring of the eagle mounted up along its neck, as if it had been hollow.

Portuguese

bugio (sense 1)

Alternative forms

• bogio (obsolete)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic بِجَايَة (bijāya)bor.

Old Galician-Portuguese Bugia

Latin -um

Old Galician-Portuguese -o

Old Galician-Portuguese *bogio

Portuguese bugio

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese *bogio, from Bugia (“Béjaïa”), from Arabic بِجَايَة (bijāya); English boogie, Italian bugia.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /buˈʒi.u/, /buˈʒiw/ [buˈʒiʊ̯]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /buˈʒi.u/

• Rhymes: -iu, -iw
• Hyphenation: bu‧gi‧o

Noun

bugio m (plural bugios, feminine bugia, feminine plural bugias)

2. howler monkey (any monkey in the genus Alouatta)

   Synonym: (Brazil) guariba

3. (archaic) monkey

   Synonym: macaco

   • 1587, Gabriel Soares de Sousa, chapter C, in Noticia do Brasil, Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 255:

     Ha nos matos da Bahia outros bogios, a que os indios chamam saîanhangá, que quer dizer bogio diabo, que são muito grandes, e não andam senão de noite […]

     There are other monkeys in Bahia that the Indians call “saîanhangá”, meaning “devil monkey”, which are very big and only come out at night.

Derived terms

• bugiar
• bugiaria
• bugio-de-mãos-ruivas
• bugio-do-pantanal
• bugio-preto
• bugio-ruivo
• bugio-vermelho

References

• José Pedro Machado (1995) “Bugia, bugio”, in Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa: com a mais antiga documentação escrita e conhecida de muitos dos vocábulos estudados (in Portuguese), 7 edition, volume I, Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, →ISBN, page 472, column 2