bus.
bus, omnibus (vehicle)
Meaning & usage
bus, omnibus (vehicle)
minibus, minivan
bus (electrical conductor)
Where this word comes from
Shortening of omnibus, from Latin omnibus (“for everything/all”); dative plural of omnis (“all”).
a container, a box, a tin
a bushing
one of a variety of early modern firearms, such as flintlock and matchlock guns
a voluntary sick fund, especially before the introduction of universal health care in the Netherlands in the 1940s
Where this word comes from
From Middle Dutch busse, from Old Dutch *bussa, from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā. Doublet of buks (“shotgun”), box, and pyxis.
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