bucio

• Hyphenation: bu‧cio

Attested since the 14th century (buzio). Probably related to Old French boisse, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *bostā (“palm of the hand”). Compare English bushel.

bucio m (plural bucios)

1. (historical) a dry measure containing six ferrados
   • 1390, Mª Luz Méndez Fernández (ed.), Contribución ó estudio dun libro das Tenzas da Catedral de Santiago. Edición crítica e estudio dos folios 1 a 27. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, page 51:

     en Heruidij́ns ẽno val de Mij̃ns, quatro cassares et suýan dar de cada cassal seys sesteyros de pã et por cada sesteyro dauã vijnte buzios de pan et soldos çinque leoneses por colleyta et oyto gallinas

     in Ervedíns, in the valley of Mins, four farms which used to give, each farm, six sixths of grain, each sixth twenty bucios, and five Leonese solidi at the harvest and eight hens

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin būcinum. Cognate with Portuguese búzio.

bucio m (plural bucios)

1. conch

   Synonyms: buguina, carlou

2. diver

   Synonym: mergullador

bucio (feminine bucia, masculine plural bucios, feminine plural bucias)

1. alternative form of mucio

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “buzio”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “bucio”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “bucio”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “bucio”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN