Bucephalas

Bucephalas

1. Alternative form of Bucephalus.

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βουκεφᾰ́λᾱς (Boukephắlās).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [buːˈkɛ.pʰa.ɫaːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [buˈt͡ʃɛː.fa.las]

Būcephalās m sg (genitive Būcephalae); first declension

1. Bucephalus (the name of a horse belonging to Alexander the Great)
   • 23 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Natural History 8.154:

     Eidem Alexandro et equi magna raritas contigit. Bucephalan eum vocarunt sive ab aspectu torvo sive ab insigni taurini capitis armo inpressi.

     Alexander also happened to have a great rarity of a horse. They called him Bucephalas, either from his savage appearance or from the sign of a bull's head stamped on his forequarter.

First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ās), singular only.

• → English: Bucephalas (learned)

• “Bucephalas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Bucephalas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.