bucca Latin · revision 4695

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈbʊk.ka]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈbuk.ka]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''bucca''' ''f'' (genitive buccae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ The origin is uncertain.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) The Oxford Latin Dictionary, Georges and the Thesaurus call it imitative.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)^(TLL) Ernout and Meillet suspected a Celtic origin, because it resembles [[beccus]] “beak” and Celtic personal names.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was the cheek puffed out in speaking or eating, and in the plural the jaws.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The sense “mouth” is later, from Pomponius on, and was at first derogatory.^(de Vaan 2008) Cicero writes whatever comes to his mouth (''quidquid in buccam''), and it meant a mouthful, any cavity, as in the knee joint, and a word in a children's game in Petronius.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In medieval Latin it was also an entrance and a river mouth.^(Niermeyer 1976) Proto-Romance ''*/ˈbʊkk-a/'' “cheek, mouth” is continued in all Romance languages.^(DÉRom) It survives as [[it|bocca]], [[fr|bouche]], [[es|boca]] and [[ro|bucă]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses ''quidquid in buccam venit''.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1813 – English ''buccal'' “of the cheek” is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The (puffed) [[m|en|cheek]]; in the plural, the jaws.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # The [[m|en|mouth]].^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)

+ # A [[m|en|mouthful]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # A cavity.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' An entrance; a river mouth.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[buccea]]

+ * [[buccella]]

+ * [[buccō]]

+ * [[buccula]]

+ * [[bucculentus]]

+ * [[būccina]]

+ * [[saccibuccis]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ōs]]

+ * [[en|buccal]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}