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

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.[1][2]

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.

  1. ^ John A[nthony] Hardon (1980) “Bugia”, in Modern Catholic Dictionary, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 74, column 2: “From Bugia, Latin for Bougie, Algeria, where wax was obtained.”
  2. ^ “bugia, n.”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

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.

bugia f (plural bugies)

  1. (obsolete) candle
    Synonym: espelma
  2. spark plug
    Synonym: bugia d'encesa

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.

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

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

Borrowed from French bougie.

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

bugia f (plural bugie)

  1. candleholder
    Synonyms: candeliere, candelabro, portacandela

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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

bugia

  1. feminine singular of bugio