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bulbus

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Etymology

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

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    bulbus m (genitive bulbī); second declension

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

    Declension

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    Second-declension noun.

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

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    References

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    • 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’s 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