bombus

== English == === Etymology === Latin bombus === Noun === bombus (uncountable) (obsolete, rare) A buzzing or humming. == Esperanto == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbombus/ === Verb === bombus conditional of bombi == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos), of onomatopoeic origin. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbɔm.bʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbɔm.bus] === Noun === bombus m (genitive bombī); second declension a buzz or humming sound a hollow and deep sound (Medieval Latin and later) a fart Synonyms: pēditum, crepitus ventris (New Latin) a bomb, explosive Synonyms: pila incendiāria, bomba, petardum, pyrobolus ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. === Adjective === bombus (feminine bomba, neuter bombum); first/second-declension adjective peal (Medieval Latin and later) breaking wind, farting Synonym: pēdēns ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== bombōsus bombisonus bombula bombulus ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Translingual: Bombus Emilian: bånba Italian: bombo, bomba → French: bombe → English: bomb (see there for further descendants) → Norwegian Bokmål: bombe Sicilian: bumma Spanish: bombo, bomba === References === “bombus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “bombus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "bombus", 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) “bombus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. bombus, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011 R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “bombus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC