different between swelling vs bunion

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sw?l.??/
• Rhymes: -?l??

Noun

swelling (countable and uncountable, plural swellings)

1. The state of being swollen.
2. Anything swollen, especially any abnormally swollen part of the body.
3. (figuratively) A rising, as of passion or anger.

Translations

Verb

swelling

1. present participle of swell

See also

• edema

Anagrams

• Wellings, wellings

Middle English

Noun

swelling

1. Alternative form of swellynge

English

Alternative forms

• bunyon
• bunian, bunnion, bunnian (obsolete)

Etymology

From alteration of earlier bunny (“lump, swelling”), from Middle English bony, boni (“bunion, swelling”), perhaps Italian bubbone (augmented form of bugno (“beehive”)), or more likely from Lombard bugnon (“bunyon”), all three from Old French bugne, buigne, bune (“bump, knob, swelling”), from Old Norse bunga (“an elevation, bulge”) or Frankish *bungjo (“a swelling, lump, bump”), both from Proto-Germanic *bungô, *bunkô (“lump, clump, heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?en??- (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognate with Dutch bonk (“lump, clump”), German Bunge (“swelling, tuber”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?nj?n/
• Rhymes: -?nj?n
• Homophone: Bunyan

Noun

bunion (plural bunions)

1. (pathology) A bump or bulge on the first joint of the big toe caused by the swelling of a sac of fluid under the skin.
2. (colloquial, by extension) Hallux valgus, deviation of the big toe from its normal position towards the other toes, the prime cause for the swelling of its first joint.

Translations

Further reading

• bunion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ??????? (boúnion).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?bu?.ni.on/, [?bu?ni?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?bu.ni.on/, [?bu?ni?n]

Noun

b?nion n (genitive b?ni?); second declension

1. a type of turnip, perhaps earthnut, Bunium ferulaceum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

Related terms

• b?nias
• b?n?tus

Descendants

• Translingual: Bunium

References

• b?n?on in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• b?n??n in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 231/3
• “b?nion” on page 245/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)