bombus

• IPA^(key): /ˈbombus/

bombus

1. conditional of bombi

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos), of onomatopoeic origin.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbom.bus/, [ˈbɔmbʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbom.bus/, [ˈbɔmbus]

bombus m (genitive bombī); second declension

1. a buzz or humming sound
2. a hollow and deep sound
3. (Medieval Latin and later) a fart

   Synonyms: pēditum, crepitus ventris

   • 15th c., Poggio Bracciolini, Facetiae Latinae :

     "Facesse hinc ocyus" Ugulottus ait "atque hanc tuam foetidam barbam, quae nos malo odore conturbat, amove." […] "Referta est", inquit Ugulottus, "omnibus bombis, quae unquam ab hominibus editae sunt […] "

     Ugulottus said, "Go away from here fast, and cut off your stinky beard, which has disturbed us with its bad smell." […] And Ugulottus said, "It's linked to all the farts that have ever been let off by anyone

   • 15th c., Janus Pannonius, De Lucia :

     Terribilem foedo misit de podice bumbum

     She blew off a terrible fart from her foul ass

4. (New Latin) a bomb, explosive

   Synonyms: pila incendiāria, bomba, petardum, pyrobolus

Second-declension noun.

• bombōsus
• bombisonus
• bombula

• Translingual: Bombus
• Italian: bombo
  • → French: bombe
    • → English: bomb (see there for further descendants)
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: bombe
• Sicilian: bumma
• Spanish: bombo, bomba

• “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’s 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.