buccula

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin buccula. === Noun === buccula (plural bucculae) A fold of fat beneath the chin. Synonym: double chin (entomology) in hemipterans, the ventroanterior part of the bug's head. == Latin == === Etymology === From bucca (“cheek”) +‎ -ula (diminutive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbʊk.kʊ.ɫa] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbuk.ku.la] === Noun === buccula f (genitive bucculae); first declension little cheek or mouth pressa Cupidinis buccula. (military) the beaver, part of a helmet which covers the mouth and cheeks bucculas tergere. (military) two cheeks, one on each side of the channel in which the arrow of the catapulta was placed ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== Italo-Romance: Italian: boccola Sicilian: bùccula, vùccula Padanian: Piedmontese: bocla, bogla, bogia, bócola Northern Gallo-Romance: Franco-Provençal: boclla, botlla, borclla → Italian: borchia Old French: boucleFrench: boucle→ Catalan: bucle m→ Esperanto: buklo→ Galician: bucle→ Greek: μπούκλα (boúkla)→ Portuguese: bucle→ Romanian: buclă→ Russian: бу́кля (búklja)→ Spanish: bucle m→ Turkish: bukleNorman: boucl'ye (Jersey)→ Middle English: bokelEnglish: buckleYola: boouchel→ Irish: búcla→ Middle High German: buckelGerman: Buckel Southern Gallo-Romance: Occitan: bocla, bloca (most dialects) Auvergnat: boclha Gascon: bogla Languedocien: bogla Limousin: boclha === References === “buccula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “buccula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "buccula", 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) “buccula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “buccula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin