bombyx

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English

Instars of Silkmoths

Etymology

From translingual Bombyx, from Latin bombyx, from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux). Compare bombast.

Noun

bombyx (plural bombyxes)

  1. Any member of the genus Bombyx of true silkmoths, whose caterpillars often feed on mulberries.

References

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

From Latin bombyx, from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux).

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)
  • IPA(key): /bɔ̃.biks/

Noun

bombyx m (plural bombyx)

  1. bombyx
    Synonym: ver à soie (“silkworm”)
  2. (archaic, obsolete) a type of woodwind instrument

Derived terms

References

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux); see Middle Persian pmbk' for more.

Pronunciation

Noun

bombȳx m (genitive bombȳcis); third declension

  1. silkworm

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative bombȳx bombȳcēs
genitive bombȳcis bombȳcum
dative bombȳcī bombȳcibus
accusative bombȳcem bombȳcēs
ablative bombȳce bombȳcibus
vocative bombȳx bombȳcēs

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: bombyx
  • French: bombyx m
  • Spanish: bómbice m
  • Italian: bombice m, baco
  • Translingual: Bombyx

References

  • “bombyx”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “bombyx”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • bombyx in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “bombyx”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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