The corpus record — Latin

buccula

cheek; cheek-piece (of a helmet); side-part of a machine

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Where it lives

Galba 1 · 3.63/10k
Maximini Duo 1 · 1.84/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
De Architectura 2 · 0.35/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

1. buccula — de Vaan

buccula 'cheek; cheek-piece (of a helmet); side-part of a machine' (Liv.+). Pit. *bukka-7 The meaning 'mouth' is secondary, and was originally used in a derogatory way. EM suspect Celtic origin, because it resembles beccus 'beak' (Suet.+), and because PN such as Buccus, Bucco, Buccio are Celtic names. Similarly Porzio Gemia 1981. Sihler (1995: 224) acknowledges two categories of words in which geminates are often … — [de Vaan, s.v. buccula, p. 90]

2. buccŭla — Lewis & Short

buccŭla (būcŭla), ae, f.dim.bucca.

I A little cheek or mouth, * Suet. Galb. 4: pressa Cupidinis buccula, App. M. 6, p. 182, 17; 3, p. 137, 40; Arn. 2, p. 73.—

II In milit. lang.

A The beaver, that part of a helmet which covers the mouth and cheeks, paragnaqi/s: bucculas tergere, Liv. 44, 34, 8; Juv. 10, 134; Capitol. Max. Jun. 3; Cod. Th. 10, 22, 1.—

B Bucculae, two cheeks, one on each side of the channel in which the arrow of the catapulta was placed, Vitr. 10, 15, 3.

In the wild

bucculas Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.10.3
buccula Juvenal, Saturae 4.10.134
buccula Suetonius, Galba 4.1
bucculasque Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.44.34.8
bucculae Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.10.3
bucculas Historia Augusta, Maximini Duo 29

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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. buccula (scan p. 90; entry #161). Root candidates: *pukk-, *bukk-.

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