Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

buisine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bui-sine
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A medieval wind instrument with a very long, straight and slender body, usually made of metal.

Example Sentences

"It was marvellously great, and shewed such joy and satisfaction that the sound and bruit of their instruments, horns, buisines, and trumpets, were heard even as far as the castle."
"The clarion named in the above passages appears to have been a smaller kind of trumpet. The buisine (from buccina) was also a sort of trumpet: it was of a bent form, and made of brass."

Etymology

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.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: būcina

Inflected Forms

buisines (plural) busine (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

buccina

Synonyms

herald's trumpet

Questions

What does buisine mean?: A medieval wind instrument with a very long, straight and slender body, usually made of metal.
Where does buisine come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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