buisine

buisine

English

Etymology

Borrowed 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.

Noun

buisine (plural buisines)

1. (music, historical) A medieval wind instrument with a very long, straight and slender body, usually made of metal.

   Synonym: herald's trumpet

   Coordinate term: buccina

   • 1823, Archaeologia; Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, page 155:

     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.

   • 1860, John Hewitt, The fourteenth century, page 310:

     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.

Alternative forms

• busine

Translations

medieval wind instrument

Catalan: anafil (ca) m, nafil (ca) m Dutch: bazuin (nl) m or f Finnish: busina French: buisine (fr) f Italian: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Spanish: añafil m

Further reading

• buisine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Alternative forms

• bucine, buccine, busine, buisnie

Etymology

From Old French buisine, from Latin būcina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɥi.zin/

Noun

buisine f (plural buisines)

1. (music instrument, historical) buisine

Further reading

• buisine (musique) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
• “buisine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin būcina, with a change to stress on the last syllable (influenced by the suffix -īnus).

Noun

buisine f (oblique plural buisines, nominative singular buisine, nominative plural buisines)

1. A type of trumpet used in battle.

Related terms

• buison / buson

Descendants

• French: buisine, buccine, buse
  • → English: buisine
• → Dutch: bazuin
• → Middle High German: busūne, busīne
  • German: Posaune
    • → English: posaune

See also

• olifan
• corn