βόμβος

An Onomatopoeic term borrowed from the Pre-Greek substrate. Compare Lithuanian bim̃balas, Latvian bam̃bals (“beetle”), Russian бу́бен (búben, “tambourine”), Albanian bubullimë (“thunder”), and Old Norse bumla (“drum”) for similar formations.^[1]

βόμβος • (bómbos) m (genitive βόμβου); second declension

1. any deep, hollow sound, humming, buzzing, booming, rumbling

• βομβυλιός (bombuliós)

• → Greek: βόμβος (vómvos)
• → Latin: bombus (see there for further descendants)

• “βόμβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βόμβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βόμβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βόμβος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • boom idem, page 89.
  • buzz idem, page 107.
  • drone idem, page 253.
  • hum idem, page 409.
• “βόμβος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

• βομβίνος (vomvínos)

Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos).

βόμβος • (vómvos) m (plural βόμβοι)

1. bumblebee
2. buzzing, humming (sound)
3. (medicine) tinnitus

• (tinnitus): εμβοές f pl (emvoés)
• (hornet): αγριομέλισσα f (agriomélissa)