Etymology

buisine

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Today it means: A medieval wind instrument with a very long, straight and slender body, usually made of metal. Full definition →

Old French buisine ← Latin būcina
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The story

  1. Latin · derived frombūcina
  2. Old French · learned borrowing frombuisine
  3. English todaybuisine

Learned borrowing from Old French buisine, busine (an earlier, Middle English-era borrowing bosyne did not survive into modern English), from Latin būcina. Doublet of buccina and posaune.

Words from the same roots

Latinbūcina all →

buccinabuccinal

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.