bucca
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
bucca (plural buccas)
- (UK) A storm spirit in Cornish folklore, traditionally 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
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Latin bucca (“the cheek”).
Noun edit
bucca (plural buccae)
References edit
- “bucca”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Cornish edit
Etymology edit
Possibly borrowed from Old English pūca (“demon, goblin”). Or, from Irish púca (“hobgoblin”).
Noun edit
bucca
Descendants edit
- → English: bucca
References edit
- Daimler, M. (2017). Fairies: A Guide to the Celtic Fair Folk. United Kingdom: John Hunt Publishing
- Isles of Wonder: the cover story. (n.d.). (n.p.): Lulu.com, p. 181
Interlingua edit
Noun edit
bucca (plural buccas)
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain. Celtic origin is suspected due to similarity with beccus (“beak”), names like Gaulish Buccus, Buccō, Bucciō as well as the appearance of words bocca and boca (of unknown meaning) on the Larzac tablet. IEW compares it with Proto-Germanic *pukkô (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew, *bʰew- (“to swell, puff”), whose initial b- would point to a substrate or imitative origin. Compare also English puke, German fauchen.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbuk.ka/, [ˈbʊkːä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbuk.ka/, [ˈbukːä]
Noun edit
bucca f (genitive buccae); first declension
- (anatomy):
- the soft part of the cheek puffed or filled out in speaking or eating
- (in the plural) the jaw
- (colloquial) the mouth
- Synonym: ōs
- Lucius Pomponius Bononiensis, Comedies 150:
- sī valēbit, puls in buccam bētet
- if he's well, the porridge will find a way into his mouth
- sī valēbit, puls in buccam bētet
- (metonymically):
- (transferred sense) any cavity in general
- (hapax) A catchword of uncertain meaning used in a guessing game, possibly equivalent and/or related to English buck buck.
Usage notes edit
Found in the sense of 'mouth' beginning from Pomponius and Varro (early 1st century BCE), as well as with Cicero in the colloquial expression in buccam venīre (“to come to mind first”), foreshadowing the eventual replacement of ōs by this term.
Inflection edit
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 edit
Descendants edit
- →? Albanian: bukë (disputed)
- →? Egyptian Arabic: بق (disputed)
- → Proto-Celtic:
- Eastern Romance:
- → English: bucca, ⇒ buccal
- →⇒ Finnish: bukkaalinen
- Franco-Provençal: boche
- ⇒ French: buccal
- Gallo-Italic:
- Ligurian: bócca
- Italo-Dalmatian:
- Old Occitan: bocha
- Occitan: boca
- Oïl:
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian: buca
- Gallurese: bucca
- Venetian: boca
- Western Iberian:
See also edit
References edit
- “bucca” on page 266 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “bucca”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 76
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) “b(e)u-2, bh(e)ū̆-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 98-102
Further reading edit
- “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- bucca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Old English edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *bukkō, 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 edit
Noun edit
bucca m (nominative plural buccan)
Declension edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
Sicilian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bucca f (plural bucchi)