bucca

English

Noun

bucca (plural buccas)

1. (Britain) A storm spirit in Cornish folklore, formerly believed to inhabit mines and coastal communities.
   • 2008, Oliver Berry, Belinda Dixon, Devon, Cornwall & Southwest England (page 273)

     a fabled menagerie of fairies, buccas, sprites and giants

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Cornish

Noun

bucca

1. hobgoblin

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Interlingua

Noun

bucca (plural buccas)

1. mouth

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Latin

Etymology

Uncertain.

Celtic origin suspected because Gaulish Buccus, Buccō, Bucciō are Celtic names and the Larzac tablet mentions bocca and boca (although their meanings are unknown). In such a case, may be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeHw- (“to swell, puff”), itself imitative.

However, de Vaan doubts this etymology.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbuk.ka/, [ˈbʊk.ka]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbuk.ka/

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Noun

bucca f (genitive buccae); first declension

1. puffed cheek
2. (Vulgar Latin) mouthful
3. (Vulgar Latin) mouth

Usage notes

Already used with the sense of 'mouth' by Cicero in a private letter (although it was even then not considered to be a word to be used in literary contexts), indicating that the replacement of ōs by this term in colloquial ('Vulgar') Latin was already well underway in the first century BC.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bucca	buccae
Genitive	buccae	buccārum
Dative	buccae	buccīs
Accusative	buccam	buccās
Ablative	buccā	buccīs
Vocative	bucca	buccae

Derived terms

• buccea
• buccella
• buccifer
• buccō
• buccōsus
• buccula
• bucculentus
• saccibuccis

 

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: bucã
  • Romanian: bucă
• Franco-Provençal: boche
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Ligurian: bócca
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Corsican: bocca
    • Gallurese: bucca
  • Dalmatian: buca
  • Istriot: buca
  • Italian: bocca
  • Sassarese: bocca
  • Sicilian: vucca, bucca
• Old Occitan: bocha
  • Occitan: boca
• Oïl:
  • Old French: boche
    • Bourguignon: bôche
    • Middle French: bouche
      • French: bouche
      • Norman: bouoche
    • Walloon: boutche
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: bocje, bočhe
  • Romansch: bucca
• Sardinian:
  • Campidanese: bucca
  • Logudorese: bucca
  • Nuorese: bucca, vucca
• Venetian: boca
• Western Iberian:
  • Extremaduran: boca
  • Navarro-Aragonese:
    • Aragonese: boca
  • Old Leonese: [Term?]
    • Asturian: boca
    • Leonese: bouca
    • Mirandese: boca
  • Old Portuguese: boca
    • Galician: boca
    • Portuguese: boca
  • Old Spanish: boca
    • Spanish: boca
• → Albanian: bukë (disputed)
• → Celtic: [Term?]
  • Brythonic: *box
    • Breton: boc'h
    • Cornish: bogh
    • Welsh: boch
  • Irish: bus
• ⇒ English: buccal
• ⇒ Finnish: bukkaalinen
• ⇒ French: buccal

See also

• os

References

• bucca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bucca in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bucca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• bucca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *bukkô (“male goat”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰugo- (“buck”). Akin to Old High German boc, Old Norse bukkr, Middle Dutch boc, Avestan 𐬠𐬏𐬰𐬀‎ (būza, “buck, goat”), Old Armenian բուծ (buc, “lamb”), Old English bucc (“male deer”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuk.kɑ/

Noun

bucca m (nominative plural buccan)

1. he-goat

Declension

Declension of bucca (weak)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	bucca	buccan
accusative	buccan	buccan
genitive	buccan	buccena
dative	buccan	buccum

Related terms

• bucc

Descendants

• Middle English: bukke, bucke, buk, bocke, bucce, boke, buc
  • English: buck
  • Scots: buk, buke, buik

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Sicilian

Alternative forms

• vucca, ucca

Etymology

From Latin bucca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbukka/
• Hyphenation: bùc‧ca

Noun

bucca f (plural bucchi)

1. mouth