## Etymology
From Old French bocle ('boss of a shield, buckle'), from Latin buccula ('cheek strap of a helmet'), diminutive of bucca ('cheek'). The verb sense 'bend, collapse' comes from a separate borrowing of French boucler ('to bulge').

## AI Etymology
Buckle comes from Old French bocle ('boss of a shield, buckle'), from Latin buccula ('cheek strap of a helmet'), diminutive of bucca ('cheek'). The verb sense 'bend, collapse' comes from a separate borrowing of French boucler ('to bulge'). The historical trail runs through bocle in Old French, buccula in Latin, and bucca in Latin. Used as a noun and verb, buckle now means "a clasp for fastening a strap; to fasten, bend, or collapse under strain", so the present definition can be read against the older forms and meanings. The result is a borrowed or transmitted form whose modern spelling carries a compact record of its route into English.

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