bucina Latin · revision 33143

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=compound|attested=116–27 BC, Varro|origins=ine-pro *gʷeh₃-u-s, ine-pro *kh₂n-e-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈbuː.kɪ.na]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈbuː.t͡ʃi.na]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''būcina''' ''f'' (genitive būcinae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ An inscription of Augustus' time spells it ''buccina''.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The OLD takes it as probably ⟨*bou-canā⟩, from [[m|la|bōs|t=ox, cow]] and [[m|la|canō|t=to sing, play]], and Köbler and Wiktionary give the same parts.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|bōs]] to [[ine-pro|*gʷeh₃-u-s|t=cow]], with an initial ⟨b-⟩ taken from Sabellic,^(de Vaan 2008) and [[m|la|canō]] to [[ine-pro|*kh₂n-e-|t=to sing]].^(de Vaan 2008) Lewis & Short compare [[grc|βυκάνη|tr=bukánē]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Varro,^(de Vaan 2008) who uses it of the shepherd's horn,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Cicero has the soldier woken by the trumpets in the speech for Murena.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a curved horn or trumpet, as opposed to the usually straight ''tuba'', first a shepherd's horn in Varro, Columella and Propertius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) In the army it gave signals, as in Virgil's dread call to battle,^(OLD 2012) and it marked the watches of the day and night, as Propertius' fourth trumpet announcing the dawn.^(OLD 2012) It also meant a trumpet-shaped shell of the kind blown by Tritons.^(TLL) The TLL notes its Romance descendants, Italian ''buccina'' and Old French ''buisine''.^(TLL) In Late and Medieval Latin it is any trumpet.^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro, of the shepherd's horn.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, of army trumpets.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil, of a signal for battle.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 57/46–12 BC – Propertius, of the trumpet marking the watches.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A curved [[m|en|horn]] or [[m|en|trumpet]]; a shepherd's horn.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(military)'' A war trumpet; the trumpet that marks the watches.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A trumpet shell.^(TLL)

+ # ''(Late and Medieval Latin)'' Any trumpet.^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[būcinō]]

+ * [[būcinum]]

+ * [[būcinus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[bōs]]

+ * [[canō]]

+ * [[tuba]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}