The corpus record — Latin

bucerus

bucerus · adj

having the horns of a bullock

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Where it lives

De Rerum Natura 3 · 0.62/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

1. būcĕrus — Lewis & Short

būcĕrus (būcĕrĭus, a, um, adj., = bou/kerws,

Lucr. 2, 663),

I having the horns of a bullock, ox-horned (perh. only in the foll. exs.): bucerum pecus de bubus dicimus, Paul. ex Fest. p. 32 Müll.: bucera saecla, the race of horned caltle, Lucr. 5, 864; so id. 6, 1236; imitated by Ovid: armenta, * Ov. M. 6, 395: buceriae greges, Lucr. 2, 663 (quoted by Non. p. 80, 27, and p. 208, 21).

2. bücerus — Walde–Hofmann

bücerus, bücerius, -a, -um „mit Ochsenhórnern* (dicht. seit Lucr.): aus gr. BoóKepuc, Bouképaoc ds. (Saalfeld, Osthoff Et. Par. 15). — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. bücerus, p. 152]

In the wild

bucera Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 6.1237
bucera Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.866
buceras Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 21.7.p2
bucera Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.395
buceriaeque Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 2.662
buceras Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 24.19.p9

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