The story
- Latin · derived frombuccula“boss”
- Vulgar Latin · derived from*bucculārius“bossed”
- Old French · derived frombocler
- Middle English · inherited frombukler
- English todaybuckler
From Middle English bukler, bokler, bokeler, bokeleer, from Old French bocler, boucler, bucler, (French bouclier) from Vulgar Latin *bucculārius (“bossed”), from Latin buccula (“boss”). Merged with buckle + -er.
Words from the same roots
Latinbuccula all →
bucklebuccula
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.