omnibus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from French (voiture) omnibus (“(carriage) for all”), from Latin omnibus (“for all”), dative plural of omnis (“all”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈɒmnɪbəs/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɑmnɪbəs/ Hyphenation: om‧ni‧bus Rhymes: -ɪbəs === Noun === omnibus (plural omnibuses or omnibusses or (nonstandard) omnibi) (dated) A bus (vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads). An anthology of previously released material linked together by theme or author, especially in book form. A broadcast programme consisting of all of the episodes of a serial that have been shown in the previous week. (philately) A stamp issue, usually commemorative, that appears simultaneously in several countries as a joint issue. (obsolete, slang, chiefly US) An assistant waiter. Synonyms: busboy, busser an omnibus box ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Adjective === omnibus (not comparable) Containing multiple items. Of a transportation service, calling at every station, as opposed to express; local. ==== Translations ==== === Verb === omnibus (third-person singular simple present omnibuses or omnibusses, present participle omnibusing or omnibussing, simple past and past participle omnibused or omnibussed) (transitive) To combine (legislative bills, etc.) into a single package. (intransitive, dated) To drive an omnibus. (intransitive, dated) To travel or be transported by omnibus. 2005, Simon Schama, in Simon Schama; Paul Moorhouse; Colin Wiggins, John Virtue: London Paintings, London: National Gallery Company, →ISBN, page 23: [John] Virtue has often sung his ode to pollution; the artist's friend. Whether to embrace or reject the begrimed air, the half-choked light has historically sorted out the men from the boys in London painters. […] Claude Monet was in two minds about it, cursing it from his room in the Savoy in 1899 for blotting out the fugitive sun. Yet by far the strongest of his paintings – completed in a studio a long, long way from the Thames – were the greeny-grey early-morning images of crowds tramping and omnibussing their way to work over hostile bridges, unblessed by even a hint of watery sunshine. === References === == French == === Etymology === Ellipsis of voiture omnibus (“carriage for all”), the latter element being a learned borrowing from Latin omnibus (“for all”), dative plural of omnis (“all”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɔm.ni.bys/ === Noun === omnibus m (invariable) (dated) omnibus, bus (especially, a 19th-century horse-drawn omnibus) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → English: omnibus ⇒ English: bus (see there for further descendants) → German: Omnibus→ Hungarian: omnibusz → Spanish: ómnibus === Adjective === omnibus (invariable) (rail transport) local (of a train; making stops at all stations) un train omnibus ― a local train === Further reading === “omnibus”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “omnibus”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette “omnibus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɔm.nɪ.bʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɔm.ni.bus] === Adjective === omnibus dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of omnis 29 bc. Vergil. Georgics, III amor omnibvs idem Sex is the same for all of them [viz., every form of man, beast, aquatic or winged life, and livestock] === Noun === omnibus n pl dative/ablative of omnia == Polish == === Alternative forms === ogniwóz (Eastern Kraków, Gmina Stopnica) === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin omnibus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɔmˈɲi.bus/ Rhymes: -ibus Syllabification: om‧ni‧bus === Noun === omnibus m inan (dated) omnibus ==== Declension ==== === Noun === omnibus m pers (humorous, literary) jack of all trades (a person with knowledge in multiple fields) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === omnibus in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN omnibus in Polish dictionaries at PWN