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bulbus
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Indonesian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin bulbus (“bulb”), Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, “plant with round swelling on underground stem”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈbulbus/ [ˈbul.bʊs]
- Rhymes: -ulbus
- Syllabification: bul‧bus
Noun
Synonyms
- bebawang (in Standard Malay)
- umbi lapis
Further reading
- “bulbus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, “plant with round swelling on underground stem”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbʊɫ.bʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbul.bus]
Noun
bulbus m (genitive bulbī); second declension
- bulb (especially an edible bulb such as the onion)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
- bulbāceus
- bulbātiō
- bulbōsus
- bulbulus
Descendants
References
- “bulbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “bulbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "bulbus", 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)
- “bulbus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “bulbus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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