bombax — Lewis & Short
bombax, interj., = bomba/c (v. Eustath. Od. p. 1718, a), an exclamation of real or affected surprise,
I indeed! strange! Ca. Fur. Ba. Babae. Ps. Fugitive. Ba. Bombax, Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 131 Lambin.
The corpus record — Latin
Bombax
Bombax · interj
indeed! strange! Ca
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Where it lives
- Pseudolus 1 · 0.9/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- Bombax Plautus, Pseudolus 1.3
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
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