bucetum

• būcītum

Perhaps from bōs (“cow”) +‎ -ētum (“place”), by analogy to fruticētum, salicētum, and senticētum for the epenthetic -c- and būcina (“horn”) and būculus (“young bull”) for the būc- stem form.

Others have proposed the combination of bōs with Proto-Indo-European *kayt-, *ḱayt- (“forest, wasteland, pasture”) (whence Proto-Germanic *haiþī (“heath, wasteland”)). This however does not seem to account for the change from Proto-Indo-European -ai- to Latin -ē- (or -ī- in būcītum).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /buːˈkeː.tum/, [buːˈkeː.tũ]

būcētum n (genitive būcētī); second declension

1. a pasture for cattle, a cow-pasture

Second declension.

• (pasture): pascuum

• būcētum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bucetum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• būcētum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 230/3
• “būcētum” on page 244/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)