bulbus

Learned borrowing from Latin bulbus (“bulb”), Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós, “plant with round swelling on underground stem”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbulbus/ [ˈbul.bʊs]
• Rhymes: -ulbus
• Syllabification: bul‧bus

bulbus (plural bulbus-bulbus)

1. (botany) bulb

• bebawang (in Standard Malay)
• umbi lapis

• “bulbus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbʊɫ.bʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbul.bus]

bulbus m (genitive bulbī); second declension

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

Second-declension noun.

• “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