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BugleEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Probably named after the Bugle Inn.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bugleEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Etymology tree Anglo-Norman buglebor. Middle English bugle English bugle Inherited from Middle English bugle, from Anglo-Norman bugle (“young ox, heifer; bugle”), from Latin būculus (“young ox, steer”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bugleEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Etymology tree Anglo-Norman buglebor. Middle English bugle English bugle Inherited from Middle English bugle, from Anglo-Norman bugle (“young ox, heifer; bugle”), from Latin būculus (“young ox, steer”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bugleEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Late Latin bugulus (“a woman's ornament”), probably from Latin būculus.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗bugleEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
From Middle English bugle (“bugleweed”), from Anglo-Norman and Old French bugle, from Medieval Latin bugilla, probably related to Late Latin bugillo.
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Chambers (1908)
1908- BugleEnglish · e-37683-3606
Bugle, bū′gl, Bugle-horn, bū′gl-horn, n. a hunting-horn, originally a buffalo-horn: a treble musical instrument, usually made of copper, like the trumpet, but having the bell less expanded and the tube shorter and more c
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Bugle, bū′gl, n. a slender elongated kind of bead, usually black.—adj. (Shak.) like bugles. [Prob. conn. with Low L. bugulus; prob. obscurely conn. with Dut. beugel, a ring.]
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Bugle, bū′gl, n. a palæarctic genus of plants of the natural order Labiatæ, with blue or sometimes white or purple flowers. [Fr., It. bugola—Low L. bugula, bugillo.]
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