bucca — Logoi (Latin)

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Apocolocyntosis 1 · 3.69/10k
Stichus 2 · 3.22/10k
Truculentus 2 · 2.44/10k
Cum Senatui Gratias Egit 1 · 2.31/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Saturae 5 · 2.01/10k
Poenulus 2 · 1.81/10k
Satyricon 5 · 1.64/10k
Epigrammata 9 · 1.6/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 1 · 0.92/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. bucca — de Vaan

bucca 'puffed, filled out cheek; mouth' [f. a] (P1.+; 'mouth' Pompon.+) Derivatives: bucco 'fathead, dolt' (PL+), bucculentus 'having fat cheeks' (PI.), — [de Vaan, s.v. bucca, p. 90]

2. bucca — Lewis & Short

bucca (not buccha), ae, f.kindred with bu/zw, buka/nh; Fr. bouche.

I The cheek (puffed or filled out in speaking, eating, etc.; diff. from genae, the side of the face, the cheeks, and from mala, the upper part of the cheek under the eyes; v. Plin. 11, 37, 57, § 156 sqq.; mostly in plur.; class.): buccam implere, Cato ap. Gell. 2, 22, 29: sufflare buccas, Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 42: inflare, id. ib. 5, 6, 7: rumpere buccas, to write bombast, Pers. 5, 13: sufflare buccis, Mart. 3, 17, 4.—In violent anger (cf. in Gr. fusa=n ta\s gna/qous, deina\ fusa=n, etc.): quin illis Juppiter ambas Iratus buccas inflet, etc., * Hor. S. 1, 1, 21: pictus Gallus ... distortus, ejectā linguā, buccis fluentibus, Cic. de Or. 2, 66, 266; id. Red. in Sen. 6, 13: fluentes pulsataeque buccae, id. Pis. 11, 25 B. and K.: purpurissatae (rouged), Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 35.—In blowing the fire: buccā foculum excitat, Juv. 3, 262 al.—Hence,

b Dicere (scribere) quod or quidquid in buccam venit, a colloq. phrase, to speak (write) whatever comes uppermost, Cic. Att. 1, 12, 4; 7, 10 fin.; 14, 7, 2; Mart. 12, 24, 5.— Also ellipt.: garrimus quidquid in buccam, Cic. Att. 12, 1, 2.—

B Meton.

1 One who fills his cheeks in speaking, a declaimer, bawler: Curtius et Matho buccae, Juv. 11, 34 (jactanticuli, qui tantum buccas inflant et nihil dicunt, Schol.); cf.: bucca loquax vetuli cinoedi, Mart. 1, 42, 13: homo durae buccae, Petr. 43, 3; so of a trumpeter: notaeque per oppida buccae, Juv. 3, 35.—

2 One who stuffs out his cheeks in eating, a parasite, Petr. 64, 12.—

3 A mouthful: bucca panis, Petr. 44, 2; Mart. 7, 20, 8; 10, 5, 5.—

II Transf.

A From men to animals; of croaking frogs, Plin. 11, 37, 65, § 173.—

B In gen., a cavity; of the knee-joint, Plin. 11, 45, 103, § 250.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. bucca (scan p. 90; entry #160).
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. bucca (scan p. 87; entry #1119).

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