tubicen

tuba (“a long, straight trumpet”) +‎ -cen (“player [of a musical instrument]”)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtu.bi.ken/, [ˈtʊ.bɪ.kɛn]

tubicen m (genitive tubicinis); third declension

1. a trumpeter, especially in an army at war but also at sacrifices or funerals

Third declension.

• (trumpeter): tubicinātor, tubocantius

• tubicen sacrōrum
• tubicinō (intransitive verb)

• tŭbĭcen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tubicen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tŭbĭcĕn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1,609/2
• tubicen in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “tubicen” on page 1,983/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)