bucinator

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αἰθὴρ δ᾽ ἐλαφραῖς πτερύγων ῥιπαῖς ὑποσυρίζει (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 126) → The bright air fanned | whistles and shrills with rapid beat of wings.

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Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

būcĭnātor: (bucc-), ōris, m. bucino,
I one who blew the bucina, a trumpeter, Caes. B.C. 2, 35; Petr. 26, 9; Varr. L. L. 6, § 75; Dig. 50, 6, 6; Inscr. Orell. 3522.—
II Trop. (cf. bucina, II. D.), one who trumpets forth, blazes abroad: bucinator existimationis meae, Cic. Fil. ap. Cic. Fam. 16, 21, 2; Inscr. Orell. 3232.