bunion
English
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Etymology
From alteration of earlier bunny (“lump, swelling”), from Middle English bony, boni (“bunion, swelling”); or perhaps from Italian bubbone, an augmented form of Italian bugno (“beehive”); More likely from Lombard bugnon (“bunyon”). Middle English, Lombard and Italian words from Old French bugne, buigne, bune (“bump, knob, swelling”), from Old Norse bunga (“an elevation, bulge”) or from Old Frankish *bungjo (“a swelling, lump, bump”), both Old Norse and Old Frankish from Proto-Germanic *bungô, *bunkô (“lump, clump, heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognate with Dutch bonk (“lump, clump”), German Bunge (“swelling, tuber”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbʌnjən/
- Rhymes: -ʌnjən
- Homophone: Bunyan
Noun
bunion (plural bunions)
Translations
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Latin
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek βούνῐον (boúnion).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbuː.ni.on/, [ˈbuː.ni.ɔn]
Noun
būnion n (genitive būniī or būnī); second declension
- a type of turnip
- c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 20.11 :
- Nāpōrum duās differentiās et in medicīnā Graecī servant. angulōsīs foliōrum caulibus, flōre anētī, quod būnion vocant, pūrgātiōnibus fēminārum et vēsīcae et ūrīnae ūtile dēcoctum, pōtum ex aquā mulsā vel sūcī drachmā; sēmen dysintericīs tostum trītumque in aquae calidae cyathīs quattuor. sed ūrīnam inhibet, sī nōn līnī sēmen ūna bibātur.
- The Greeks also preserve two distinct types of turnip in medicine. Having angular leafstalks (and) a flower (like that) of dill, (the turnip) they call the “bunion” (is) useful boiled (and) drunk in mead or in a drachma of juice for women's purgings and for the bladder and for the urine; the seed, toasted and ground, in four ladlesful of warm water, (is useful) for people with dysentery. It prevents urination, however, if one (drachma) of linseed is not drunk.
- Nāpōrum duās differentiās et in medicīnā Graecī servant. angulōsīs foliōrum caulibus, flōre anētī, quod būnion vocant, pūrgātiōnibus fēminārum et vēsīcae et ūrīnae ūtile dēcoctum, pōtum ex aquā mulsā vel sūcī drachmā; sēmen dysintericīs tostum trītumque in aquae calidae cyathīs quattuor. sed ūrīnam inhibet, sī nōn līnī sēmen ūna bibātur.
- (perhaps) earthnut, Bunium ferulaceum
Declension
Second declension, Greek type.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | būnion | būnia |
Genitive | būniī | būniōrum |
Dative | būniō | būniīs |
Accusative | būnion | būnia |
Ablative | būniō | būniīs |
Vocative | būnion | būnia |
Related terms
- būnias
- būnītus
Descendants
- Translingual: Bunium
References
- būnĭon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- būnĭŏn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 231/3
- “būnion” on page 245/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)