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Latin
Etymology
From būcina (“bugle; curved war trumpet”), from bōs + canō (“sing”). Compare classicum.
Pronunciation
Noun
būcinum n (genitive būcinī); second declension
- trumpet call, blast on a trumpet
- a kind of shellfish
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
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