buccus

Latin

Etymology

From Frankish *bukk (“buck, goat”), from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz; possibly assisted by Gaulish *bukkos, from Proto-Celtic *bukkos (“goat”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbuk.kus/, [ˈbʊkːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbuk.kus/, [ˈbukːus]

Noun

buccus m (genitive buccī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) he-goat

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	buccus	buccī
Genitive	buccī	buccōrum
Dative	buccō	buccīs
Accusative	buccum	buccōs
Ablative	buccō	buccīs
Vocative	bucce	buccī

Descendants

• Padanian:
  • Piedmontese: boc
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: bôc, boque, boche
  • Old French: buc
    • Middle French: bouc
      • French: bouc; bouk, bok (dialectal)
        • Haitian Creole: bouk
    • ⇒ Old French: bocher, boucher, bouchier
      • Bourguignon: bochei
      • Middle French: boucher, bouchier
        • French: boucher
          • Haitian Creole: bouche
        • Norman: bouochi (Jersey)
      • Walloon: botchî
      • → Galician: buxeo
      • → Middle English: bocher, bochier, boucher, buccher, bucher; bochere, bocheyr, boochier, boscher
        • English: butcher
          • → Hindi: बूचड़ (būcaṛ)
          • → Swahili: bucha
          • → Urdu: بُوچَڑ (būcaṛ)
        • Scots: butcher
      • → Irish: búistéir
      • → Sicilian: vucceri, bucceri, buccieri, ucceri, vuccieri
        • → Maltese: biċċier
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: boc, buco, boque
  • Old Catalan: boch, boc
    • Catalan: boc
  • Occitan: boc
• Iberian:
  • Old Spanish: bote
    • Spanish: bode
      • → Portuguese: bode