bucinum

Latin

Alternative forms

• buccinum

Etymology

From būcina (“bugle; curved war trumpet”), from bōs + canō (“sing”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.ki.num/, [ˈbuːkɪnʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbu.t͡ʃi.num/, [ˈbuːt͡ʃinum]

Noun

būcinum n (genitive būcinī); second declension

1. trumpet call, blast on a trumpet
2. a kind of shellfish

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	būcinum	būcina
Genitive	būcinī	būcinōrum
Dative	būcinō	būcinīs
Accusative	būcinum	būcina
Ablative	būcinō	būcinīs
Vocative	būcinum	būcina

Descendants

• Aromanian: bucium
• French: buccin
• Galician: bucio

• Italian: bucine
• Portuguese: búzio
• Romanian: bucium

References

• “bucinum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bucinum 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)
• bucinum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “bucinum”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press