Latin

Alternative forms

• buccinum

Noun

būcinum n ‎(genitive būcinī); second declension

1. trumpet call, blast on a trumpet
2. a kind of shellfish

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

References

• bucinum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• BUCINUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “bucinum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• bucinum in Samuel Ball Platner (1929), Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press