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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin būcina.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /byː.ká.nɛː/ → /βyˈka.ni/ → /viˈka.ni/
Noun
βῡκᾰ́νη • (būkắnē) f (genitive βῡκᾰ́νης); first declension
- spiral trumpet, horn
Inflection
Derived terms
Further reading
- “βυκάνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βυκάνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βυκάνη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βυκάνη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 248