Buddas

Latin

Alternative forms

• Budda

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βούδδας (Boúddas, “Buddha”), from Sanskrit बुद्ध (buddha).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbuːd.daːs/, [ˈbuːd̪ːäːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbud.das/, [ˈbud̪ːäs]

Proper noun

Būddās m sg (genitive Būddae); first declension

1. (Buddhism) the Buddha (founder of Buddhism)
   • 392 CE, Jerome, Against Jovinianus 1,42:

     Apud Gymnosophistas Indiae, quasi per manus huius opinionis auctoritas traditur, quod Buddam principem dogmatis eorum, e latere suo virgo generarit.

   • 290 CE – 364 CE, Gaius Marius Victorinus, Justinum Manichaeum Contra Duo Principia Manichaeorum VII:

     Iam vidistine ergo quot Manis, Zoradis, aut Buddas haec docendo deceperint?

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās), singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Būddās
Genitive	Būddae
Dative	Būddae
Accusative	Būddam Būddān
Ablative	Būddā
Vocative	Būddā

References

• “Buddās” in volume 2, column 2236, line 69 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present

• Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “Βούδδας”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 314