buculus Latin · revision 4446

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Columella|origins=la bōs}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈbuː.kʊ.ɫʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈbuː.ku.lus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''būculus''' ''m'' (genitive būculī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|bōs|-culus|t1=ox, cow]], a diminutive.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) The feminine [[bucula|alt=būcula]] “heifer” is older and more frequent.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Columella, in his book on farming, tells how to lead young bullocks to the stall once caught.^(TLL)^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Columella to the 1st century AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was a young ox or bull, a steer, in Columella and in Frontinus' Stratagems, where bullocks are tied to trees.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) Georges specifies a young bull kept for breeding.^(Georges 1913) A Greek–Latin glossary renders it with a Greek word for a calf.^(TLL)

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+ In medieval Latin Hrabanus Maurus uses it of an ox-herd, perhaps by confusion with Greek [[grc|βουκόλος|tr=boukólos]].^(MLW) Through [[fro|bugle]] “wild ox; horn” it is the source of [[en|bugle]], recorded in the mid-14th century, short for ''buglehorn'', a horn made from an ox's horn.^(Etymonline)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1st century AD – Columella uses it of young bullocks.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st half of 9th century – Hrabanus Maurus uses it.^(Köbler 2010)^(MLW)

+ * mid-14th century – English ''bugle'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A young [[m|en|bullock]], a [[m|en|steer]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' An ox-herd.^(MLW)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[būcula]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[bos|alt=bōs]]

+ * [[en|bugle]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}