buccula
English
Noun
buccula (plural bucculas)
Latin
Etymology
Noun
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
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
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