bucca

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

bucca (plural buccas)

1. mouth

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 version.

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

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bucca f (genitive buccae); first declension

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

First declension.

• os

• 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

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuk.kɑ/

bucca m (nominative plural buccan)

1. he-goat

• bucc

• Middle English: bukke
  • English: buck
  • Scots: buk, buke, buik

• vucca, ucca

From Latin bucca.

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

bucca f (plural bucchi)

1. mouth