bombus

• IPA^(key): /ˈbombus/

bombus

1. conditional of bombi

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

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

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.