bugia
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A liturgical candlestick held beside a Latin Catholic bishop or other prelate.
Example Sentences
- "The Bishop having given his blessing to the Subdeacon, reads the Epistle, Gradual, Alleluia, Prose, and Gospel, after having said with joined hands the Munda cor meum, &c., and Dominus vobiscum: the book is supported by the Clerk, and the bugia held as usual."
- "Additionally, since the seminarians had to serve at Masses at various times for monsignors or bishops in the different seminary crypt chapels, they had to learn how to be a bugia-bearer."
- "So, anyway, seeing the procession of young women with lighted phones in a darkened stairwell reminded me of all those bugia bearers bearing bugias. I hope they in that stairwell were and are as attentive to eternal truths as were those earliest prelates who prayed by the light from the bugia-borne candle."
Etymology
From New Latin bugia, from Medieval Latin candēla Bugiae, candēla dē Bugia (“candle from Bejaia (a seaport town in northeastern Algeria from which they were exported)”), a calque of Middle French chandelle de Bougie. Doublet of bougie.