buccula
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]buccula (plural bucculae)
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From bucca (“cheek”) + -ula (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈbuk.ku.la/, [ˈbʊkːʊɫ̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbuk.ku.la/, [ˈbukːulä]
Noun
[edit]buccula f (genitive bucculae); first declension
- little cheek or mouth
- pressa Cupidinis buccula.
- (military) the beaver, part of a helmet which covers the mouth and cheeks
- bucculas tergere.
- (military) two cheeks, one on each side of the channel in which the arrow of the catapulta was placed
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | buccula | bucculae |
| genitive | bucculae | bucculārum |
| dative | bucculae | bucculīs |
| accusative | bucculam | bucculās |
| ablative | bucculā | bucculīs |
| vocative | buccula | bucculae |
Descendants
[edit]- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
References
[edit]- “buccula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “buccula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- buccula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “buccula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “buccula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin