buccella

From bucca (“cheek, mouth, mouthful”) +‎ -ella (diminutive suffix). Compare buccea.

buccella f (genitive buccellae); first declension

1. morsel, small mouthful
2. small bread divided among the poor

First-declension noun.

• bucellārius
• buccelāris
• buccellāgō
• buccellātum

• Italian: buccella
• → Proto-Basque: *bukeLa
  • Basque: okela
• Romanian: bucea

• “buccella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• buccella in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• buccella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.