bucinator

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

būcĭnātor (bucc-), ōris, m. [bucino],

I one who blew the bucina, a trumpeter , Caes. B.C. 2, 35; Petr. 26, 9; Varr. L. L. 6, § 75; Dig. 50, 6, 6; Inscr. Orell. 3522.—

II Trop. (cf. bucina, II. D.), one who trumpets forth , blazes abroad : bucinator existimationis meae, Cic. Fil. ap. Cic. Fam. 16, 21, 2; Inscr. Orell. 3232.

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