Buces

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βύκης (Búkēs).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbʊ.keːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbuː.t͡ʃes]

Bucēs m sg (genitive Bucae); first declension

1. (fully lacus Bucēs) the Syvash (network of lagoons forming a western arm of the Sea of Azov)
   • 77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 4.84.1:

     Mare subit magno recessu, donec V passuum intervallo absit a Maeotide, vasta ambiens spatia multasque gentes. sinus Carcinites appellatur. flumen Pacyris; oppida Navarum, Carcine. a tergo lacus Buces, fossa emissus in mare. ipse Buces a Coreto, Maeoti lacus sinu, petroso discluditur dorso. recipit amnes Bucem, Gerrhum. Hypanim, ex diverso venientes tractu. nam Gerrhus Basilidas et Nomadas separat, Hypanis per Nomadas et Hylaeos fluit, manu facto alveo in Bucen, naturali in Coretum. regio Scythiae Sindica nominatur.

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First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ēs), with locative, singular only.

• “BUCES”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “Bucēs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 230.