bugio - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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From English boogie, of uncertain origin.
bugio (uncountable, accusative bugion)
Perhaps a confluence of buco and pertugio.
bugio (feminine bugia, masculine plural bugi, feminine plural bugie or buge)
- (obsolete) hollow
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.
Old Galician-Portuguese bogio
Portuguese bugio
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese bogio, from Bugia (“Bejaia”), from Arabic بِجَايَة (bijāya).[1]
Cognate with English boogie ans Italian bugia.
bugio m (plural bugios, feminine bugia, feminine plural bugias)
- howler monkey (any monkey in the genus Alouatta)
- Synonym: (Brazil) guariba
- (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's forests that the Indians call “saîanhangá”, meaning “devil monkey”, which are very big and only come out at night.
- “bugio”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “bugio”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
- “bugio”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “bugio”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025