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bucina

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See also: bučina

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

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Latin

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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