Buces

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βύκης (Búkēs).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbʊ.keːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbuː.t͡ʃes]

Proper noun

Bucēs m sg (genitive Bucae); first declension

1. (fully lacus Bucēs) the Syvash (network of lagoons forming a western arm of the Sea of Azov)
   • 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 4.84.1:

     Mare subit magno recessu, donec V passuum intervallo absit a Maeotide, vasta ambiens spatia multasque gentes. sinus Carcinites appellatur. flumen Pacyris; oppida Navarum, Carcine. a tergo lacus Buces, fossa emissus in mare. ipse Buces a Coreto, Maeoti lacus sinu, petroso discluditur dorso. recipit amnes Bucem, Gerrhum. Hypanim, ex diverso venientes tractu. nam Gerrhus Basilidas et Nomadas separat, Hypanis per Nomadas et Hylaeos fluit, manu facto alveo in Bucen, naturali in Coretum. regio Scythiae Sindica nominatur.

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Declension

First-declension noun (masculine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ēs), with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Bucēs
genitive	Bucae
dative	Bucae
accusative	Bucēn
ablative	Bucē
vocative	Bucē
locative	Bucae

References

• “BUCES”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “Bucēs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 230.