bombax

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English

Bombax ceiba flower

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin .

Noun

bombax (plural bombaxes)

  1. Any member of the genus Bombax of tropical trees in the mallow family.

Synonyms

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Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek βομβάξ (bombáx).

Interjection

bombax

  1. indeed! strange! Used to express real or affected surprise.

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux, “silkworm”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

bombax

  1. silk cotton tree
Descendants
  • Old French: bombace
  • → Translingual: Bombax (learned)

References

  • “bombax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • bombax 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)
  • bombax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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