buccinator

• bucinator

Borrowed from Latin buccinātor (“trumpeter”), from buccinō (“blow the trumpet”) +‎ -tor (“-ator, -er”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌk.sɪn.eɪ.tə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌk.səˌneɪ.tɚ/

buccinator (plural buccinators or buccinatores)

1. (anatomy) A thin broad muscle forming the wall of the cheek.

   Until now there has been no definitive anatomical study describing the area where the parotid duct enters the buccinator muscle.

   • 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 109:

     What a language it is, with all the organs of speech in loud concert - tongue, teeth, and tonsils, lips and larynx, buccinator and schnozzola!

• “buccinator”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “buccinator”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [bʊk.kɪˈnaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [but.t͡ʃiˈnaː.t̪or]

buccinātor m (genitive buccinātōris, feminine buccinātrīx); third declension

1. alternative spelling of būcinātor

• → English: buccinator

Borrowed from French buccinateur.

buccinator m (plural buccinatori)

1. (anatomy) buccinator