bucina

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Galician

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Etymology

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Attested since circa 1350 (buzina). Learned borrowing from Latin būcina. Compare Portuguese buzina and Spanish bocina.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /buˈθina̝/, (western) /buˈsina̝/

Noun

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bucina m (plural bucinas)

  1. bugle; trumpet
    • c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 129:
      Et mãdarõ logo sonar [per] la villa cornos et buzinas et tronpas et anafijs.
      And they ordered to play horns and bugles and trumps and trumpets through the town
  2. horn, klaxon
    Synonym: claxon
  3. conch
  4. whelk (Buccinum undatum)
    Synonym: bucio

References

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Latin

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
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A buccina or bucina.

Etymology

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From bōs, bovi- (cow) + the root of canō (sing).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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būcina f (genitive būcinae); first declension

  1. bugle
  2. curved war trumpet
  3. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) any trumpet in general
    • Vulgate Bible, Douay-Rheims Version, Exodus 20:18
      • Cunctus autem populus videbat voces et lampadas et sonitum bucinae montemque fumantem et perterriti ac pavore concussi steterunt procul.
      • And all the people saw the voices and the flames, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mount smoking; and being terrified and struck with fear, they stood afar off.

Declension

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative būcina būcinae
genitive būcinae būcinārum
dative būcinae būcinīs
accusative būcinam būcinās
ablative būcinā būcinīs
vocative būcina būcinae

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • bucina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • bucina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • bucina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • bucina”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • bucina”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 74