bombyx

From translingual Bombyx, from Latin bombyx, from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux). Compare bombast.

bombyx (plural bombyxes)

1. Any member of the genus Bombyx of true silkmoths, whose caterpillars often feed on mulberries.

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From Latin bombyx, from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux).

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• IPA^(key): /bɔ̃.biks/

bombyx m (plural bombyx)

1. bombyx

   Synonym: ver à soie (“silkworm”)

2. (archaic, obsolete) a type of woodwind instrument

• “bombyx”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux); see Middle Persian pmbk' for more.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbom.byːks/, [ˈbɔmbyːks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbom.biks/, [ˈbɔmbiks]

bombȳx m (genitive bombȳcis); third declension

1. silkworm

Third-declension noun.

• bombȳcinus

• English: bombyx
• French: bombyx m
• Spanish: bómbice m
• Italian: bombice m
• Translingual: Bombyx

• “bombyx”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bombyx”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bombyx in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “bombyx”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers