Etymograph

English

bocca

Bocca comes from Italian bocca ‘mouth’, and goes back to Latin bucca.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEbucca1‘the mouth’
  2. Italianc. 1300–presentbocca2‘mouth’
  3. Englishtodaybocca2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Italian bocca
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English bocca

Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEbuccaWiktionary, Italian bocca‘the mouth’
  2. Italianc. 1300–presentboccaWiktionary, English bocca‘mouth’
  3. EnglishtodayboccaWiktionary, English bocca

Linked words

through Latin beccus ‘beak’

beck, beak, 9 more

through Latin bucca ‘the mouth’

buckle, bouche, 7 more

Today it means

noun The round hole in the furnace of a glassworks through which the fused glass is taken out.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “bocca”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Italian bocca. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Latin bucca / bocca

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