bucca

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbʌk.ə/ Rhymes: -ʌkə === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Cornish bocka. Doublet of pooka and puck. ==== Noun ==== bucca (plural buccas) (UK, Cornwall) A storm spirit in Cornish folklore, traditionally believed to inhabit mines and coastal communities. === Etymology 2 === Learned borrowing from Latin bucca (“the cheek”). Doublet of bocca and bouche. ==== Noun ==== bucca (plural buccae) (anatomy) Synonym of cheek. === References === “bucca”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. == Interlingua == === Noun === bucca (plural buccas) mouth == Latin == === Alternative forms === buca === Etymology === Uncertain. Celtic origin is suspected due to similarity with beccus (“beak”), names like Gaulish Buccus, Buccō, Bucciō as well as the appearance of words bocca and boca (of unknown meaning) on the Larzac tablet. IEW compares it with Proto-Germanic *pukkô (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew, *bʰew- (“to swell, puff”), whose initial b- would point to a substrate or imitative origin. Compare also English puke, German fauchen. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbʊk.ka] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbuk.ka] === Noun === bucca f (genitive buccae); first declension (anatomy): the soft part of the cheek puffed or filled out in speaking or eating Synonym: gena (in the plural) the jaw (colloquial) the mouth Synonym: ōs (metonymic): one who fills his cheeks in speaking; declaimer, bawler one who stuffs out his cheeks in eating; parasite a mouthful (transferred sense) any cavity in general (hapax legomenon) A catchword of uncertain meaning used in a guessing game, possibly equivalent and/or related to English buck buck. ==== Usage notes ==== Found in the sense of 'mouth' beginning from Pomponius and Varro (early 1st century BCE), as well as with Cicero in the colloquial expression in buccam venīre (“to come to mind first”), foreshadowing the eventual replacement of ōs by this term. ==== Inflection ==== First-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === See also === ōs === References === “bucca” on page 266 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012) De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “bucca”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 76 Pokorny, Julius (1959), “b(e)u-2, bh(e)ū̆-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 98-102 === Further reading === “bucca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “bucca”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "bucca", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “bucca”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. == Old English == === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *bukkō, from Proto-Germanic *bukkô (“male goat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰugo- (“buck”). Akin to Old High German boc, Old Norse bukkr, Middle Dutch boc, Avestan 𐬠𐬏𐬰𐬀 (būza, “buck, goat”), Old Armenian բուծ (buc, “lamb”), Old English bucc (“male deer”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbuk.kɑ/ === Noun === bucca m (nominative plural buccan) he-goat c. 994, Ælfric, On the Year ==== Declension ==== Weak: ==== Related terms ==== bucc byċċen ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: bukke, bocke, boke, buc, bucce, bucke, bukEnglish: buckScots: buk, buke, buikYola: buch == Sicilian == === Alternative forms === vucca, ucca === Etymology === From Latin bucca. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbu(ː)kka/, /vu(ː)-/ Hyphenation: bùc‧ca === Noun === bucca f (plural bucchi) mouth