bulbus

Latin

Etymology

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Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós)bor.

Latin bulbus

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, “plant with round swelling on underground stem”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbul.bus/, [ˈbʊɫ̪bʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbul.bus/, [ˈbulbus]

Noun

bulbus m (genitive bulbī); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun.

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

Derived terms

• bulbāceus
• bulbātiō
• bulbōsus
• bulbulus

 

Descendants

• → Belarusian: бульба (bulʹba)
  • → Yiddish: בולבע (bulbe), בולבעס (bulbes)
• → Catalan: bulb
• → English: bulb, bulbus
• → French: bulbe
  • → Romanian: bulb
• → Galician: bulbo
• → Italian: bulbo
• → Occitan: bulb
• → Portuguese: bolbo, bulbo
• → Spanish: bulbo

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