Bucca

• Buca

From bucca (“jaw, cheeks”), of uncertain etymology. In Atellan Farce, the character of "Buccus" was a fat-cheeked gluttonous and boastful country buffoon.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbʊk.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbuk.ka]

Bucca m sg (genitive Buccae); first declension

1. a cognomen used by the gens Aemilia

   Lucius Aemilius Bucca

    

First-declension noun, singular only.

• George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 109.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuk.kɑ/

Bucca m

1. a male given name

• Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England – Bucca