buccula

buccula (plural bucculas)

1. A fold of fat beneath a chin

From bucca +‎ -ula.

buccula f (genitive bucculae); first declension

1. little cheek or mouth

   pressa Cupidinis buccula.

2. (military) the beaver, part of a helmet which covers the mouth and cheeks

   bucculas tergere.

3. (military) two cheeks, one on each side of the channel in which the arrow of the catapulta was placed

First declension.

• buccula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• buccula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• buccula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• buccula in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• buccula in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin