Bucolium

Latin

Alternative forms

• Būcolion

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Βουκόλιον (Boukólion).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /buːˈko.li.um/, [buːˈkɔlʲiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /buˈko.li.um/, [buˈkɔːlium]

Proper noun

Būcolium n sg (genitive Būcoliī or Būcolī); second declension

1. A town of Laconia, where the inhabitants of Mantinea were defeated by those from Tegea

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Būcolium
genitive	Būcoliī Būcolī1
dative	Būcoliō
accusative	Būcolium
ablative	Būcoliō
vocative	Būcolium
locative	Būcoliī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• “Bucolium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Bucolion”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly