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Latin
Etymology
From bibō (“drink”) + -ulus, from Proto-Italic *pibō, from Proto-Indo-European *píph₃eti, from the root *peh₃- (“drink”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
bibulus (feminine bibula, neuter bibulum); first/second-declension adjective
- Fond of drinking; drinking readily or freely; frequently thirsty; bibulous.
- (of inanimate things) That sucks in or absorbs; absorbent, porous, bibulous.
- (figuratively) Ready to hear; thirsty to listen; listening.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “bibulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “bibulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- bibulus 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)
- bibulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- bibulus in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 822
- “bibulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “bibulus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray