bulbus
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, “plant with round swelling on underground stem”).
Noun
bulbus m (genitive bulbī); second declension
- bulb (especially an edible bulb such as the onion)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | bulbus | bulbī |
| Genitive | bulbī | bulbōrum |
| Dative | bulbō | bulbīs |
| Accusative | bulbum | bulbōs |
| Ablative | bulbō | bulbīs |
| Vocative | bulbe | bulbī |
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: bulb, bulbus
- French: bulbe
- Italian: bulbo
- Portuguese: bolbo, bulbo
- Romanian: bulb
- Spanish: bulbo
- Belarusian: бульба (bulʹba)
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’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