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Latin
Etymology
From bucca (“cheek”) + -ō, -ōn- (noun-forming suffix).
Noun
buccō m (genitive buccōnis); third declension
- (derogatory) babbler, fool, blockhead
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:homo stultus
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “bucco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- bucco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.