Translingual

Bubalus bubalus

Proper noun

Bubalus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Bovidae – the water buffalos.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Mammalia - class; Theria - subclass; Eutheria - infraclass; magnorder - magnorder; Laurasiatheria - superorder; Cetartiodactyla - clade; Artiodactyla - order; Bovidae - family; Bovinae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Bubalus bubalis (water buffalo), Bubalus arnee (wild Asian water buffalo), Bubalus depressicornis (lowland anoa), Bubalus mindorensis (tamaraw), Bubalus quarlesi (mountain anoa) (species)
  • Bubalus cebuensis (Cebu dwarf buffalo), Bubalus mephistopheles (short-horned water buffalo), Bubalus murrensis (European water buffalo) (extinct species)

Latin

Noun

būbalus m ‎(genitive būbalī); second declension

1. antelope, gazelle
2. wild ox, buffalo

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

References

• bubalus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• BUBALUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “bubalus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.