bucetum

Latin

Alternative forms

būcītum

Etymology

Perhaps from bōs (“cow”) +‎ -ētum (“place”), by analogy to fruticētum, salicētum, and senticētum for the epenthetic -c- and būcina (“horn”) and būculus (“young bull”) for the būc- stem form.

Others have proposed the combination of bōs with Proto-Indo-European *kayt-, *ḱayt- (“forest, wasteland, pasture”) (whence Proto-Germanic *haiþī (“heath, wasteland”)). This regularly corresponds to the form būcītum, with the form in -ē- due to reanalysis.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /buːˈkeː.tum/, [buːˈkeːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /buˈt͡ʃe.tum/, [buˈt͡ʃɛːt̪um]

Noun

būcētum n (genitive būcētī); second declension

a pasture for cattle, a cow-pasture

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	būcētum	būcēta
Genitive	būcētī	būcētōrum
Dative	būcētō	būcētīs
Accusative	būcētum	būcēta
Ablative	būcētō	būcētīs
Vocative	būcētum	būcēta

Synonyms

(pasture): pascuum

References

“būcētum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
bucetum 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)
būcētum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 230/3.
“būcētum” on page 244/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)