buccula

English

Noun

buccula (plural bucculae)

1. A fold of fat beneath the chin.

Latin

Etymology

From bucca (“cheek”) +‎ -ula (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbuk.ku.la/, [ˈbʊkːʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbuk.ku.la/, [ˈbukːulä]

Noun

buccula f (genitive bucculae); first declension

1. little cheek or mouth

   pressa Cupidinis buccula.

2. (military) the beaver, part of a helmet which covers the mouth and cheeks

   bucculas tergere.

3. (military) two cheeks, one on each side of the channel in which the arrow of the catapulta was placed

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	buccula	bucculae
Genitive	bucculae	bucculārum
Dative	bucculae	bucculīs
Accusative	bucculam	bucculās
Ablative	bucculā	bucculīs
Vocative	buccula	bucculae

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: boccola
  • Sicilian: bùccula, vùccula
• Padanian:
  • Piedmontese: bocla, bogla, bogia, bócola
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: boclla, botlla, borclla
    • → Italian: borchia
  • Old French: boucle
    • French: boucle
      • → Catalan: bucle m
      • → Esperanto: buklo
      • → Galician: bucle
      • → Greek: μπούκλα (boúkla)
      • → Portuguese: bucle
      • → Romanian: buclă
      • → Russian: бу́кля (búklja)
      • → Spanish: bucle m
      • → Turkish: bukle
    • Norman: boucl'ye (Jersey)
    • → Middle English: bokel
      • English: buckle
      • Yola: boouchel
    • → Irish: búcla
    • → Middle High German: buckel
      • German: Buckel
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitan: bocla, bloca (most dialects)

    Auvergnat: boclha

    Gascon: bogla

    Languedocien: bogla

    Limousin: boclha

References

• “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