bucina

būcina (not bucc-), ae, f

for *bovicina; bos + 1 CAN-, a trumpet, horn .—For military signals: bucinā datum signum, L.: bucinarum cantus: bello dat signum Bucina, V.: ad tertiam bucinam, at the third watch , L.—For calling an assembly: bucina datur, homines concurrunt, a trumpet-call .— Poet.: Bucina, quae concepit ubi aera, etc., i. e. Triton's horn , O.— Fig.: foedae bucina famae, slander's trumpet , Iu.