bus

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English[edit]

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A bus (motor vehicle).

Etymology[edit]

Shortening of omnibus, from Latin omnibus (“for everything/all”); dative plural of omnis (“all”). The electrical sense is derived from figurative application of the automotive sense.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bus (plural buses or busses)

  1. (automotive) A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads.
  2. An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components.
  3. (medical industry, slang) An ambulance.

Synonyms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Terms derived from bus

Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

bus (third-person singular simple present busses or buses, present participle bussing or busing, simple past and past participle bussed or bused)

  1. (transitive, automotive, transport) To transport via a motor bus.
  2. (transitive, automotive, transport, chiefly US) To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration.
  3. (intransitive, automotive, transport) To travel by bus.
  4. (transitive, US, food service) To clear meal remains from.
    He bussed tables as the restaurant emptied out.
  5. (intransitive, US, food service) To work at clearing the remains of meals from tables or counters; to work as a busboy.
    He’s been bussing for minimum wage.

Usage notes[edit]

The Canadian Oxford Dictionary only presents the spellings buses, busing, and bused, implying that these are the predominant forms in Canada.

Derived terms[edit]

  • (clear meal remains): busboy

Translations[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Afrikaans[edit]

Noun[edit]

bus (plural busse, diminutive bussie)

  1. (automotive) bus

Catalan[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Cognate to Spanish buso (“underwater snail”) and Portuguese búzio (“underwater snail”), from Latin būcina (“horn”).

Noun[edit]

bus m, f (plural bussos)

  1. diver

Etymology 2[edit]

Probably from Old Norse buza (“big wide ship”).

Noun[edit]

bus m (plural bussos)

  1. (archaic) A large sailing ship used in the 12th and 13th centuries, broad of beam and with two or three masts.

Etymology 3[edit]

Probably from Persian بوس (bus, “kiss”).

Noun[edit]

bus m (plural busos)

  1. (archaic) flattery
Usage notes[edit]

Only found in the phrase fer lo bus (“to kiss up”).

Etymology 4[edit]

Reduction of autobús

Noun[edit]

bus m (plural busos)

  1. bus (vehicle)

Etymology 5[edit]

From English bus.

Noun[edit]

bus m (plural busos)

  1. bus (electrical connector)

Czech[edit]

Noun[edit]

bus m

  1. bus (motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads)

Synonyms[edit]

Danish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Shortening of omnibus, from French omnibus, from Latin omnibus (“for all”), dative plural of omnis (“all”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bus c (singular definite bussen, plural indefinite busser)

  1. bus, coach

Inflection[edit]

Inflection of bus
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bus bussen busser busserne
genitive bus’ bussens bussers bussernes

Dutch[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Shortening of omnibus, from Latin omnibus (“for everything/all”); dative plural of omnis (“all”).

Noun[edit]

bus m (plural bussen, diminutive busje n)

  1. (transport) bus, omnibus (vehicle)
  2. (transport, in diminutive) minibus, minivan
  3. bus (electrical conductor)
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Dutch *bussa, from Proto-Germanic *buhsijōn, *buhsuz. Compare German Büchse.

Noun[edit]

bus f (plural bussen, diminutive busje n)

  1. container, box, tin
Derived terms[edit]

Verb[edit]

bus

  1. first-person singular present indicative of bussen
  2. imperative of bussen

French[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bus m (plural bus)

  1. bus
Synonyms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Inflected forms.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

bus

  1. first-person singular indicative simple past of boire
  2. second-person singular indicative simple past of boire
  3. plural past participle of boire

Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowing from English bus.

Noun[edit]

bus m (genitive bus, nominative plural busanna)

  1. bus

Declension[edit]

Declension of bus

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative bus busanna
Vocative a bhus a bhusanna
Genitive bus busanna
Dative bus busanna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bus na busanna
Genitive an bhus na mbusanna
Dative leis an mbus

don bhus

 leis na busanna

Derived terms[edit]

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bus bhus mbus
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Jèrriais[edit]

Verb[edit]

bus

  1. first-person singular preterite of baithe

Lithuanian[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

bùs

  1. third-person singular future tense of būti.
  2. third-person plural future tense of būti.
  3. third-person singular future tense of busti.
  4. third-person plural future tense of busti.

Lojban[edit]

Rafsi[edit]

bus

  1. rafsi of bu.

Old Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *beu- (“to swell, bulge”).

Noun[edit]

bus ?

  1. lip

Romagnol[edit]

FWOTD - 6 April 2014

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bus m

  1. hole
    • September 2012, Daniela Cortesi, Bônanòta in la Ludla, il Papiro, page 15:
      un sorg e’ cor in priscia int e’ su bus.
      a mouse runs hastily towards its hole.

Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowing from English bus.

Noun[edit]

bus m (genitive bus, plural busaichean)

  1. bus

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Irish bus.

Noun[edit]

bus m (genitive buis, plural buis or busan)

  1. pout (facial expression)

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowing from English bus.

Noun[edit]

bus m (plural buses)

  1. (Latin America) bus

Related terms[edit]

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From the verb busa (“to do mischief”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bus n (uncountable)

  1. very innocent mischief, prank
    Trick or Treat is often translated with Bus eller godis
  2. general noise or trouble made by gangs of youths

Declension[edit]

Declension of bus
uncountable uncountable
Neuter indefinite definite
nominative bus

|| buset || ||
genitive bus

|| busets || ||

Derived terms[edit]

Tagalog[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English bus.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bus

  1. bus (vehicle)

Related terms[edit]

Tok Pisin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English bush.

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Noun[edit]

bus

  1. bush (remote rural areas)
    • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Genesis 1:25 (translation here):
      God i kamapim ol kain kain animal bilong ples na ol bikpela na liklik animal bilong bus. God i lukim olgeta dispela samting i gutpela, na em i amamas.


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Derived terms[edit]

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