different between yucca vs bucca

English

Etymology

Variant of yuca, from Galibi Carib yuca (“cassava (Manihot esculenta)”). The word was applied to plants of the genus Yucca (now the main sense), because Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and others confused them with the cassava.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?j?k?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?j?k?/, /?ju?k?/
• Rhymes: -?k?
• Hyphenation: yuc?ca

Noun

yucca (plural yuccas)

1. Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca, having long, pointed, and rigid leaves at the top of a woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms.
2. (now proscribed, obsolete) The yuca (cassava).

Usage notes

While yucca was formerly also used on occasion to refer to the yuca (cassava), this usage is now regarded as erroneous.

Synonyms

• oose (US)

Hyponyms

• Adam's needle
• Joshua tree

Derived terms

• yucca borer
• yucca moth
• yuccaloeside

Translations

References

• Yucca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Yucca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Yucca on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish yucca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ju.ka?/
• Hyphenation: yuc?ca

Noun

yucca f (plural yucca's)

1. yucca, evergreen of the genus Yucca

Derived terms

• yuccaplant
• yuccavlinder

French

Noun

yucca m (plural yuccas)

1. yucca

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?k.?/
• Rhymes: -?k?

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Cornish bucca.

Noun

bucca (plural buccas)

1. (Britain) A storm spirit in Cornish folklore, traditionally believed to inhabit mines and coastal communities.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin bucca (“the cheek”).

Noun

bucca (plural buccae)

1. (anatomy) Synonym of cheek.

References

• “bucca”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Cornish

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from Old English puca (“demon, goblin”). Or, from Irish púca (“hobgoblin”).

Noun

bucca

1. hobgoblin

References

• Daimler, M. (2017). Fairies: A Guide to the Celtic Fair Folk. United Kingdom: John Hunt Publishing
• Isles of Wonder: the cover story. (n.d.). (n.p.): Lulu.com, p. 181

Interlingua

Noun

bucca (plural buccas)

1. mouth

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Celtic origin is suspected due to similarity with beccus (“beak”), names like Gaulish Buccus, Bucc?, Bucci? as well as the appearance of words bocca and boca (of unknown meaning) on the Larzac tablet. IEW compares it with Proto-Germanic *pukkô (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew, *b?ew- (“to swell, puff”), whose initial b- would point to a substrate or imitative origin. Compare also English puke, German fauchen.

Alternative forms

• buca

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?buk.ka/, [?b?k?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?buk.ka/, [?buk??]

Noun

bucca f (genitive buccae); first declension

1. (anatomy):
   1. the soft part of the cheek puffed or filled out in speaking or eating
   2. (in the plural) the jaw
   3. (colloquial) the mouth

      Synonym: ?s

2. (metonymically):
   1. one who fills his cheeks in speaking; declaimer, bawler
   2. one who stuffs out his cheeks in eating; parasite
   3. a mouthful
3. (transferred sense) any cavity in general
4. (hapax) A catchword of uncertain meaning used in a guessing game, possibly equivalent and/or related to English buck buck.

Usage notes

Found in the sense of 'mouth' beginning from Pomponius and Varro (early 1st century B.C.E.), as well as with Cicero in the colloquial expression in buccam ven?re (“to come to mind first”), foreshadowing the eventual replacement of ?s by this term.

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

See also

• ?s

References

• “bucca” on page 266 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) , “bucca”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 76
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) , “b(e)u-2, bh(e)??-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 98-102

Further reading

• bucca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bucca in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bucca in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• bucca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *bukkô (“male goat”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ugo- (“buck”). Akin to Old High German boc, Old Norse bukkr, Middle Dutch boc, Avestan ????????????????? (b?za, “buck, goat”), Old Armenian ???? (buc, “lamb”), Old English bucc (“male deer”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?buk.k?/

Noun

bucca m (nominative plural buccan)

1. he-goat

Declension

Related terms

• bucc

Descendants

• Middle English: bukke, bucke, buk, bocke, bucce, boke, buc
  • English: buck
  • Scots: buk, buke, buik

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• vucca, ucca

Etymology

From Latin bucca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bukka/
• Hyphenation: bùc?ca

Noun

bucca f (plural bucchi)

1. mouth