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βῡκᾰν-η

bukane

trumpet, horn

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What it meant

1. βυκάνη · bykanē — Beekes

βυκάνη [f.] ‘trumpet, horn’ (Plb.). *DER βυκανάω ‘to blow the horn’ (Plb.), βυκανητής (Plb.); βυκανίζω (Eust.) βυκανιστής (Plb.), βυκανισμός (Nicom.). *ETYM A loan word from Lat. bacina; for the suffix, cf. machina : μηχανή (Niedermann IF 37 (1916/1917): 147f. contra Cuny 1908: 108ff.: from unweakened *biicana). A more exact rendering is βου-; Bovxivétwp (Lyd.) = bitcinator and the hybrid form βουκινίζω (S. … — [Beekes, s.v. βυκάνη, p. 295]

2. βυκάνη · bykanē — Chantraine

βυκάνη : f. «trompette recourbée, corne de chasse, ou de guerre » pour donner des signaux (PIb., grec tardif). Verbe dénominatif βυκανάῳ orthographié βουκανάω «donner un signal avec une corne» {PIb. 6,35,12; 6,36,5); d’où βυκάνημα (App.), βυκανητής (Pib., App.); d'autre part, comme d’un verbe βυκανίζω (Eust.}, βυκανιστῆς (Ρ]0., D.H.), et βυκανισμός (Nicom.) ou βουκανισμός (Ptol.) «note grave». Et.: Le mot qui … — [Chantraine, s.v. βυκάνη, p. 215]

3. βῡκᾰν-η · bykan-ē — LSJ

spiral trumpet, horn

spiral trumpet, horn, Plb. 15.12.2, al., D.H. 2.8. (From Lat. būcǐna.)

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