buccula

Learned borrowing from Latin buccula. By surface analysis, bucc(a) +‎ -ula.

buccula (plural bucculae)

1. A fold of fat beneath the chin.

   Synonym: double chin

2. (entomology) in hemipterans, the ventroanterior part of the bug's head.
   • 1957 October, Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 1957-10: Vol 30 Iss 4‎^[1]:

     Figure 1. Lateral view of head, showing buccula of N. californicus.

   • 1993, H Brailovsky, New genera and new species of Colpurini (Heteroptera: Coreidae) from the Fiji Islands and New Guinea‎^[2]:

     Buccula rounded, without spiny projection at middle

From bucca (“cheek”) + -ula (diminutive suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbʊk.kʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbuk.ku.la]

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 noun.

• Italo-Romance:
  • Istriot: bócola
  • Italian: boccola
  • Sicilian: bùccula, vùccula
• Padanian:
  • Piedmontese: bocla, bogla, bogia, bócola
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: boclla, botlla, borclla
    • → Italian: borchia
  • Old French: boucle
    • French: boucle
      • → Catalan: bucle m
      • → Esperanto: buklo
      • → Galician: bucle
      • → Greek: μπούκλα (boúkla)
      • → Portuguese: bucle
      • → Romanian: buclă
      • → Russian: бу́кля (búklja)
      • → Spanish: bucle m
      • → Turkish: bukle
    • Norman: boucl'ye (Jersey)
    • → Middle English: bokel
      • English: buckle
      • Yola: boouchel
    • → Irish: búcla
    • → Middle High German: buckel
      • German: Buckel
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitan: bocla, bloca (most dialects)

    Auvergnat: boclha

    Gascon: bogla

    Languedocien: bogla

    Limousin: boclha

• “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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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