βοῦς + λιμός
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Βουβών, ἐπὶ τοῦ συμβαίνοντος οἰδήματος, παρὰ τὸ ἄγαν βαίνει<ν> εἰς ὕψος· βῶ οὖν βῶν, καὶ ἐπιτατικοῦ μορίου τοῦ βοῦ βουβὼν, ὡς βούπαις, βουγάϊος, βούλιμος
Translation (En)
Boubōn "bubon", said of the incoming oedema, from the fact that it goes (bainein) very much upward: bô, therefore <participle> bôn, and with the intensive prefix bou-, boubōn, as boupais "big child", bougeais "big braggart", boulimos "big hunger"
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Etym. Gudianum Additamenta, beta, p. 281 (idem); Συναγωγή λέξεων χρησίμων (versio antiqua), beta 77 (Βούλιμος· ἡ ἐπιτεταμένη λιμός); Photius, Lexicon, beta 236 (idem); Ps.-Zonaras, Lexicon, beta, p. 397 (idem); Etym. Genuinum, beta 223 (Βούσυκον· εἰώθασι γὰρ τῇ προσθήκῃ τοῦ ἵππου ἢ τοῦ βοὸς τὸ μέγεθος τοῦ ὑποκειμένου δηλοῦν. ἀπὸ μὲν τοῦ βοὸς βούσυκον βούπαις βούλιμος); Etym. Symeonis, vol. 1, p. 486 (idem); Ps.-Zonaras, Lexicon, beta, p. 402 (idem); Suda, beta 441 (Βούλιμος· ἀρσενικῶς. ἡ ἐπιτεταμένη λιμός); Etym. Magnum, Kallierges, p. 208 (Βούλιμος: Ὁ μέγας καὶ ἐπιτεταμένος λιμός· παρὰ τὸ βοῦ, ἐπιτατικὸν μόριον, καὶ τὸ λιμός); Scholia in Xenophontem, An. 4.5.27 (ὥσπερ βοῦν] ὅ ἐστι δαψιλῶς· τὸ γὰρ τοῦ βοὸς ὄνομα ἐπὶ τοῦ μεγάλου λαμβάνεται· ἔνθεν καὶ βούπαις καὶ βούλιμος)
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The word is correctly parsed as a compound, the first element being identified as an "intensive prefix", found in several words. Modern linguists agree that this intensive prefix is the name of the ox, βοῦς, reanalyses in some compounds of the type βούλιμος "ox-hunger", that is, "great hunger", or "suffering from a great hunger"