bucina

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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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• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “buzina”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
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• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “bucina”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Latin

A buccina or bucina.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.ki.na/, [ˈbuːkɪnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbu.t͡ʃi.na/, [ˈbuːt͡ʃinä]

Noun

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

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	būcina	būcinae
Genitive	būcinae	būcinārum
Dative	būcinae	būcinīs
Accusative	būcinam	būcinās
Ablative	būcinā	būcinīs
Vocative	būcina	būcinae

Derived terms

• būcinō
• būcinum

Descendants

• Catalan: botzina
• English: buccina, buisine
• French: buccine, buse, buisine
• Galician: bucina
• Italian: buccina

• Ladino: bokina
• Old French: buisine
• Old Occitan: bozina
• Portuguese: buzina
• Romanian: bucium, buciumă
• Spanish: bocina
• German: Posaune

References

• “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