Latin edit

Etymology edit

From Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, plant with round swelling on underground stem).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

bulbus m (genitive bulbī); second declension

  1. bulb (especially an edible bulb such as the onion)

Declension edit

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative bulbus bulbī
Genitive bulbī bulbōrum
Dative bulbō bulbīs
Accusative bulbum bulbōs
Ablative bulbō bulbīs
Vocative bulbe bulbī

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References edit

  • 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