The corpus record — Latin

bombus

bombus · m

a hollow

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Where it lives

Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
De Rerum Natura 1 · 0.21/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

1. bombus — Lewis & Short

bombus, i, m., = bo/mbos,

I a hollow, deep sound, a booming, humming, buzzing: Ennius sonum pedum bombum pedum dixit, Fortun. Dial. (v. Enn. p. 183 fin. Vahl.); of bees; of a horn; of the clapping of hands: si (apes) intus faciunt bombum, Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 32: cum tuba... mugit, Et reboat raucum regio cita barbara bombum, Lucr. 4, 546: raucisonos efflabant cornua bombos, Cat. 64, 263: torva mimalloneis inplerunt cornua bombis, Pers. 1, 99 Coningt. ad loc.; Mart. Cap. 1, § 67; 2, § 197: organorum, Serv. ad Verg. A. 7, 23: qui plausuum genera condiscerent (bombos et imbrices et testas vocabant), Suet. Ner. 20 Casaub.

2. bombus — Walde–Hofmann

bombus (-«- Gl), -; m. ,dumpfer Ton, Summen, Brummen“ (seit Enn. rom., als Kinderwort auch „Getränk*, vgl. -sm sorbillum Gl.; davon bombo, -önis „Drohne*, vgl gr. BougoAn f. ,Bienenart*, BoufuMóc „Hummel“, Müller-Graupa Gl. 18, 134; bombicare, bombire, bombizäre [ALL. 3, 404. 435] ,summen*): wegen o nicht urverw. Schallwort, sondern entlehnt aus gr. Böußog m. „dumpfer Ton*; vgl Boußew ,tóne dumpf, summe, rolle*, … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. bombus, p. 143]

In the wild

bombo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.10
bombis Persius, Saturae 1.99
bombos Suetonius, Nero 20.3
bombum Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 4.546
bombo Apuleius, Florida 3
bombo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.10

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. bombus (scan p. 97; entry #1293).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. bombus (scan p. 143; entry #424).

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