bibulus

== Latin == === Etymology === From bibō (“drink”) +‎ -ulus, from Proto-Italic *pibō, from Proto-Indo-European *píph₃eti, from the root *peh₃- (“drink”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbɪ.bʊ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbiː.bu.lus] === Adjective === bibulus (feminine bibula, neuter bibulum); first/second-declension adjective fond of drinking; drinking readily or freely; frequently thirsty; bibulous (of inanimate things) that sucks in or absorbs; absorbent, porous, bibulous (figuratively) ready to hear; thirsty to listen; listening ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → English: bibulous → Italian: bibulo === References === “bibulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “bibulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "bibulus", 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) “bibulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. bibulus in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 822 “bibulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “bibulus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray