Buca

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.ka/, [ˈbuːkä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbu.ka/, [ˈbuːkä]

Būca f sg (genitive Būcae); first declension

1. (historical) A city of the Frentani situated in Samnium on the Adriatic coast, whose exact position is still unknown

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Būcānus

Buca m sg (genitive Bucae); first declension

1. Alternative form of Bucca, a cognomen of the gens Aemilia and others

   Lucius Aemilius Buca

    

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

 

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From Ancient Greek Βουτζάς (Boutzás)

• IPA^(key): /bu.dʒa/

Buca

1. A district of Izmir, Turkey

• Bucalı