autobus
English
editEtymology
editFrom auto- (prefix meaning ‘self’, in the sense of being self-propelled) + bus. Sense 2 (“large group of cyclists who have fallen behind the peloton”) is borrowed from French autobus.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɔːtə(ʊ)bʌs/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɔtoʊˌbʌs/, [ˈɔɾə-]
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈɑtoʊˌbʌs/, [ˈɑɾə-]
- Hyphenation: au‧to‧bus
Noun
editautobus (plural autobuses or autobusses)
- (road transport, dated) A bus that is a motor vehicle, as opposed to earlier horse-drawn buses.
- (by extension, cycle racing) A large group of cyclists who have fallen behind the peloton (“main group of riders”) in a race.
- Synonyms: groupetto, gruppetto, laughing group
Translations
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Further reading
edit- autobus (cycling) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- glossary of cycling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “autobus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Anagrams
editAlbanian
editEtymology
editInternationalism, compare Italian autobus.
Noun
editautobús m (plural autobúsë, definite autobúsi)
References
edit- “autobus”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
Basque
editPronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editautobus inan
Declension
editindefinite | singular | plural | |
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absolutive | autobus | autobusa | autobusak |
ergative | autobusek | autobusak | autobusek |
dative | autobusi | autobusari | autobusei |
genitive | autobusen | autobusaren | autobusen |
comitative | autobusekin | autobusarekin | autobusekin |
causative | autobusengatik | autobusarengatik | autobusengatik |
benefactive | autobusentzat | autobusarentzat | autobusentzat |
instrumental | autobusez | autobusaz | autobusez |
inessive | autobusetan | autobusean | autobusetan |
locative | autobusetako | autobuseko | autobusetako |
allative | autobusetara | autobusera | autobusetara |
terminative | autobusetaraino | autobuseraino | autobusetaraino |
directive | autobusetarantz | autobuserantz | autobusetarantz |
destinative | autobusetarako | autobuserako | autobusetarako |
ablative | autobusetatik | autobusetik | autobusetatik |
partitive | autobusik | — | — |
prolative | autobustzat | — | — |
Czech
editPronunciation
editNoun
editautobus m inan
Declension
editDerived terms
editFurther reading
editDutch
editEtymology
editFrom English autobus or French autobus.[1] Equivalent to auto + bus.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editautobus m (plural autobussen, diminutive autobusje n)
Descendants
edit- → Indonesian: otobus
References
edit- ^ Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
French
editEtymology
editCoined in Paris in 1907 as a compound of automobile + omnibus.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editautobus m (plural autobus)
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → German: Autobus
- → Greek: οτομπούς (otompoús), οτομπίς (otompís) (Egyptiot Dialect)
- → Hebrew: אוֹטוֹבּוּס (ótobus)
- → Polish: autobus
- → Belarusian: аўтобус (aŭtóbus)
- → Romanian: autobuz
- → Russian: авто́бус (avtóbus) (see there for further descendants)
- → Spanish: autobús
- → Turkish: otobüs
See also
editFurther reading
edit- “autobus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from French autobus.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈaw.to.bus/
Audio: (file) Audio (un'autobus): (file) - Rhymes: -awtobus
- Hyphenation: àu‧to‧bus
Noun
editautobus m (invariable)
Occitan
editAlternative forms
editPronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editautobus m (plural autobus) (Limousin)
- bus
- Synonym: autobussa
- motorcoach
- Synonym: autocar
Further reading
edit- Yves Lavalade, Dictionnaire d'usage occitan/français - Limousin, Marche, Périgord, Institut d'Estudis Occitans dau Lemosin, 2010, →ISBN; page 94
Polish
editEtymology
editInternationalism; compare French autobus, German Autobus, Russian авто́бус (avtóbus). By surface analysis, auto- + bus.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editautobus m animal or m inan (diminutive autobusik, related adjective autobusowy)
- bus (motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads)
Declension
editsingular | plural | |
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nominative | autobus | autobusy |
genitive | autobusa/autobusu | autobusów |
dative | autobusowi | autobusom |
accusative | autobusa/autobus | autobusy |
instrumental | autobusem | autobusami |
locative | autobusie | autobusach |
vocative | autobusie | autobusy |
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Belarusian: аўтобус (aŭtóbus)
Further reading
editRomanian
editNoun
editautobus n (plural autobuse)
- Alternative form of autobuz
Declension
editsingular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) autobus | autobusul | (niște) autobuse | autobusele |
genitive/dative | (unui) autobus | autobusului | (unor) autobuse | autobuselor |
vocative | autobusule | autobuselor |
Serbo-Croatian
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editautóbus m (Cyrillic spelling ауто́бус)
Declension
editsingular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | autobus | autobusi |
genitive | autobusa | autobusa |
dative | autobusu | autobusima |
accusative | autobus | autobuse |
vocative | autobuse | autobusi |
locative | autobusu | autobusima |
instrumental | autobusom | autobusima |
Derived terms
edit- autobuska stanica (Serbia)
- autobusna stanica (Croatia)
Slovak
editPronunciation
editNoun
editautobus m inan
- a bus
Declension
editDerived terms
editRelated terms
editSee also
editFurther reading
edit- “autobus”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
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