buccus

Latin

Etymology

Confluence of borrowings from Gaulish *bukkos, from Proto-Celtic *bukkos (“goat”) and Frankish *bukk (“buck, goat”), from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbuk.kus/, [ˈbʊkːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbuk.kus/, [ˈbukːus]

Noun

buccus m (genitive buccī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) he-goat

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	buccus	buccī
Genitive	buccī	buccōrum
Dative	buccō	buccīs
Accusative	buccum	buccōs
Ablative	buccō	buccīs
Vocative	bucce	buccī

Descendants

• Old French: buc
  • Middle French: bouc
    • French: bouc; bouk, bok (dialectal)
      • Haitian Creole: bouk
  • ⇒ Old French: bocher, boucher, bouchier
    • Bourguignon: bochei
    • Middle French: boucher, bouchier
      • French: boucher
        • Haitian Creole: bouche
      • Norman: bouochi (Jersey)
    • Walloon: botchî
    • → Galician: buxeo
    • → Middle English: bocher, bochier, boucher, buccher, bucher; bochere, bocheyr, boochier, boscher (Late Middle English)
      • English: butcher
        • → Hindi: बूचड़ (būcaṛ)
        • → Swahili: bucha
        • → Urdu: بُوچَڑ (būcaṛ)
      • Scots: butcher
    • → Irish: búistéir
    • → Sicilian: vucceri, bucceri, buccieri, ucceri, vuccieri
      • → Maltese: biċċier
• Old Occitan:
  • Old Catalan: boch, boc
    • Catalan: boc
    • → Aragonese: boque