bulbus

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin bulbus (“bulb”).

Noun

bulbus (plural bulbi)

1. (sciences, medicine) Bulb (e.g., flower bulb, body part).

   Hyponym: bulbus oculi

   1. (sciences, medicine)
   2. Ellipsis of bulbus oculi.

Related terms

• bulbus cordis
• bulbus glandis
• bulbus oculi

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin bulbus (“bulb”), Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, “plant with round swelling on underground stem”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbulbus/ [ˈbul.bʊs]
• Rhymes: -ulbus
• Syllabification: bul‧bus

Noun

bulbus (plural bulbus-bulbus)

1. (botany) bulb

Synonyms

• bebawang (in Standard Malay)
• umbi lapis

Further reading

• “bulbus”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latin

Etymology

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Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós)bor.

Latin bulbus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, “plant with round swelling on underground stem”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bulbus m (genitive bulbī); second declension

1. bulb (especially an edible bulb such as the onion)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	bulbus	bulbī
genitive	bulbī	bulbōrum
dative	bulbō	bulbīs
accusative	bulbum	bulbōs
ablative	bulbō	bulbīs
vocative	bulbe	bulbī

Derived terms

• bulbāceus
• bulbātiō
• bulbōsus
• bulbulus

Descendants

• → Belarusian: бульба (bulʹba)
  • → Yiddish: בולבע (bulbe), בולבעס (bulbes)
• → Catalan: bulb
• → English: bulb, bulbus
• → French: bulbe
  • → Romanian: bulb
• → Galician: bulbo
• → Italian: bulbus (learned)
• → Italian: bulbo
• → Occitan: bulb
• → Portuguese: bolbo, bulbo
• → Spanish: bulbo

References

• “bulbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bulbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "bulbus", 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)
• “bulbus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “bulbus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray