bucina

Attested since circa 1350 (buzina). A borrowing from Latin būcina. Compare Portuguese buzina and Spanish bocina.

• IPA^(key): /buˈθina̝/, (western) /buˈsina̝/

bucina m (plural bucinas)

1. bugle; trumpet
   • c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 129:

     Et mãdarõ logo sonar [per] la villa cornos et buzinas et tronpas et anafijs.

     And they ordered to play horns and bugles and trumps and trumpets through the town

2. horn, klaxon

   Synonym: claxon

3. conch
4. whelk (Buccinum undatum)

   Synonym: bucio

• “buzina” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “buzina” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “bucina” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “bucina” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “bucina” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From bōs, bovi- (“cow”) + the root of canō (“sing”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.ki.na/, [ˈbuː.kɪ.na]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbu.t͡ʃi.na/, [ˈbuː.t͡ʃi.na]

būcina f (genitive būcinae); first declension

1. bugle
2. curved war trumpet
3. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) any trumpet in general
   • Vulgate Bible, Douay-Rheims Version, Exodus 20:18
     • cunctus autem populus videbat voces et lampadas et sonitum bucinae montemque fumantem et perterriti ac pavore concussi steterunt procul
     • And all the people saw the voices and the flames, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mount smoking; and being terrified and struck with fear, they stood afar off,

First declension.

• būcinō
• būcinum

• bucina in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bucina in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bucina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• bucina in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bucina in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin