bucetum

Latin

Alternative forms

• būcītum

Etymology

Perhaps from bōs (“cow”) +‎ -ētum (“place”), by analogy to fruticētum, salicētum, and senticētum for the epenthetic -c- and būcina (“horn”) and būculus (“young bull”) for the būc- stem form.

Others have proposed the combination of bōs with Proto-Indo-European *kayt-, *ḱayt- (“forest, wasteland, pasture”) (whence Proto-Germanic *haiþī (“heath, wasteland”)). This regularly corresponds to the form būcītum, with the form in -ē- due to reanalysis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /buːˈkeː.tum/, [buːˈkeːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /buˈt͡ʃe.tum/, [buˈt͡ʃɛːt̪um]

Noun

būcētum n (genitive būcētī); second declension

1. a pasture for cattle, a cow-pasture

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	būcētum	būcēta
genitive	būcētī	būcētōrum
dative	būcētō	būcētīs
accusative	būcētum	būcēta
ablative	būcētō	būcētīs
vocative	būcētum	būcēta

Synonyms

• (pasture): pascuum

References

• “būcētum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bucetum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• būcētum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 230/3.
• “būcētum” on page 244/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)