buisine
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old French buisine, busine (an earlier, Middle English-era borrowing bosyne did not survive into modern English), from Latin būcina. Doublet of buccina and posaune.
Noun edit
buisine (plural buisines)
- (music, historical) A medieval wind instrument with a very long, straight and slender body, usually made of metal.
- Synonym: herald's trumpet
- Coordinate term: buccina
- 1823, Archaeologia; Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, page 155:
- It was marvellously great, and shewed such joy and satisfaction that the sound and bruit of their instruments, horns, buisines, and trumpets, were heard even as far as the castle.
- 1860, John Hewitt, The fourteenth century, page 310:
- The clarion named in the above passages appears to have been a smaller kind of trumpet. The buisine (from buccina) was also a sort of trumpet: it was of a bent form, and made of brass.
Alternative forms edit
Translations edit
medieval wind instrument
Further reading edit
French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French buisine, from Latin būcina.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
buisine f (plural buisines)
- (music instrument, historical) buisine
Further reading edit
buisine (musique) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr- “buisine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French edit
Etymology edit
From Latin būcina, with a change to stress on the last syllable (influenced by the suffix -īnus).
Noun edit
buisine oblique singular, f (oblique plural buisines, nominative singular buisine, nominative plural buisines)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- French: buisine, buccine, buse
- → English: buisine
- → Dutch: bazuin
- → Middle High German: busūne, busīne