buccula

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin buccula. By surface analysis, bucc(a) +‎ -ula.

Noun

buccula (plural bucculae)

1. A fold of fat beneath the chin.

   Synonym: double chin

2. (entomology) in hemipterans, the ventroanterior part of the bug's head.
   • 1957 October, Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 1957-10: Vol 30 Iss 4‎^[1]:

     Figure 1. Lateral view of head, showing buccula of N. californicus.

   • 1993, H Brailovsky, New genera and new species of Colpurini (Heteroptera: Coreidae) from the Fiji Islands and New Guinea‎^[2]:

     Buccula rounded, without spiny projection at middle

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

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Latin bucca

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -ula

Latin buccula

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbʊk.kʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbuk.ku.la]

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.

	singular	plural
nominative	buccula	bucculae
genitive	bucculae	bucculārum
dative	bucculae	bucculīs
accusative	bucculam	bucculās
ablative	bucculā	bucculīs
vocative	buccula	bucculae

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Istriot: bócola
  • 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, 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