bue

• güe

From Vulgar Latin *boem for Latin bovem, accusative singular of bōs.

bue m (plural bues)

1. bull, ox

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥uːə]

From Old Norse bogi, from Proto-Germanic *bugô, cognate with Swedish båge, English bow, German Bogen.

bue c (singular definite buen, plural indefinite buer)

1. bow (weapon)
2. (geometry) curve, arc
3. (architecture) arch, vault
4. (music) tie, ligature, slur
5. hoop

• pil c

Possibly from Middle Low German būgen, from Old Saxon būgan, from Proto-West Germanic *beugan (“to bend”).

Cognate with English bow, Dutch buigen, German biegen. Swedish buga is also from Low German.

bue (imperative bu, infinitive at bue, present tense buer, past tense buede, perfect tense har buet)

1. to curve
2. to arch

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bue f sg

1. feminine singular of the past participle of boire

• “bue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Vulgar Latin *boem, from Latin bovem (“cow, bull, or ox”). Compare Spanish buey. Doublet of bove.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbu.e/
• Rhymes: -ue
• Hyphenation: bù‧e

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bue m (plural buoi, derogatory (figurative only) buaccio, diminutive-derogatory (figurative only) buacciolo)

1. ox (adult castrated male of cattle)

   Synonyms: bove, manzo

2. (figurative) dimwit, fool

• boaro
• buino

• bue in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• IPA^(key): [ˈbu.(w)ɛ]
• Hyphenation: bu‧e

¿bue?

1. what?

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎ (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 38
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎, Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 140

• boge

From Old Norse bogi via Danish bue, from Proto-Germanic *bugô.

bue m (definite singular buen, indefinite plural buer, definite plural buene)

1. a bow (used in archery and music)
2. (architecture) an arch
3. (geometry) an arc

• bueskyting
• bueskytter
• buestreng
• langbue

• “bue” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbu.e]

bue

1. (intransitive) to swing, rock

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh