Bucculeius

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /buk.kuˈlei̯.i̯us/, [bʊkːʊˈɫ̪ɛi̯ːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /buk.kuˈle.jus/, [bukːuˈlɛːjus]

Proper noun

Bucculeius m sg (genitive Bucculeiī or Bucculeī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
   1. Marcus Bucculeius, a Roman scholar

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Bucculeius
genitive	Bucculeiī Bucculeī1
dative	Bucculeiō
accusative	Bucculeium
ablative	Bucculeiō
vocative	Bucculeī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• “M. Bucculeius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray