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Latin
Etymology
tuba (“a long, straight trumpet”) + -cen (“player ”)
Pronunciation
Noun
tubicen m (genitive tubicinis); third declension
- a trumpeter, especially in an army at war but also at sacrifices or funerals
Declension
Third-declension noun.
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References
- “tŭbĭcen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tubicen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tŭbĭcĕn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,609/2.
- “tubicen”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “tubicen” on page 1,983/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)