bombus

See also: Bombus

English

Etymology

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Pre-Greekbor.

Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos)bor.

Latin bombusbor.

English bombus

Borrowed from Latin bombus.

Noun

bombus (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, rare) A buzzing or humming.
   • 1853, Webb Loudon, The Ladies' Companion, and Monthly Magazine, page 306:

     […] the bombus of honey-laden bees […]

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbombus/

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• Rhymes: -ombus
• Syllabification: bom‧bus

Verb

bombus

1. conditional of bombi

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos), of onomatopoeic origin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔm.bʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔm.bus]

Noun

bombus m (genitive bombī); second declension

1. a buzz or humming sound
2. a hollow and deep sound
3. a bumblebee
4. (Medieval Latin and later) a fart

   Synonyms: pēditum, crepitus ventris

   • 15th c., Poggio Bracciolini, Facetiae Latinae:

     "Facesse hinc ocyus" Ugulottus ait "atque hanc tuam foetidam barbam, quae nos malo odore conturbat, amove." […] "Referta est", inquit Ugulottus, "omnibus bombis, quae unquam ab hominibus editae sunt […] "

     Ugulottus said, "Go away from here fast, and cut off your stinky beard, which has disturbed us with its bad smell." […] And Ugulottus said, "It's linked to all the farts that have ever been let off by anyone

   • 15th c., Janus Pannonius, De Lucia:

     Terribilem foedo misit de podice bumbum

     She blew off a terrible fart from her foul ass

5. (New Latin) a bomb, explosive

   Synonyms: pila incendiāria, bomba, petardum, pyrobolus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	bombus	bombī
genitive	bombī	bombōrum
dative	bombō	bombīs
accusative	bombum	bombōs
ablative	bombō	bombīs
vocative	bombe	bombī

Adjective

bombus (feminine bomba, neuter bombum); first/second-declension adjective

1. peal
2. (Medieval Latin and later) breaking wind, farting

   Synonym: pēdēns

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	bombus	bomba	bombum		bombī	bombae	bomba
genitive	bombī	bombae	bombī		bombōrum	bombārum	bombōrum
dative	bombō	bombae	bombō		bombīs
accusative	bombum	bombam	bombum		bombōs	bombās	bomba
ablative	bombō	bombā	bombō		bombīs
vocative	bombe	bomba	bombum		bombī	bombae	bomba

Derived terms

• bombōsus
• bombisonus
• bombula
• bombulus

Related terms

• bombicō
• bombilō
• bombiō
• bombito
• bombizō
• Bombomachidēs
• bumbum

Descendants

• Translingual: Bombus
• Emilian: bånba
• Italian: bombo, bomba
  • → French: bombe
    • → English: bomb (see there for further descendants)
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: bombe
• Sicilian: bumma
• Spanish: bombo, bomba

References

• “bombus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bombus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "bombus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “bombus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• bombus, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “bombus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC