different between autobus vs motorbus

English

Etymology

auto- +? bus.

Noun

autobus (plural autobuses or autobusses)

1. (dated) A bus that is a motor vehicle, as opposed to earlier horse-drawn buses.
2. (cycling) The group of cyclists in a race who form a large group behind the leading peloton.

Synonyms

• (cycling group): gruppetto

Anagrams

• autosub

Albanian

Noun

autobus ?

1. bus

Basque

Noun

autobus inan

1. bus

Declension

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?au?tobus/

Noun

autobus m inan

1. bus, coach, omnibus

Declension

Derived terms

• autobusový

Further reading

• autobus in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• autobus in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From English autobus or French autobus. Equivalent to auto +? bus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u?.to??b?s/, /?o?.to??b?s/
• Hyphenation: au?to?bus

Noun

autobus m (plural autobussen, diminutive autobusje n)

1. bus, coach (vehicle)

References

French

Etymology

From auto- +? bus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.to.bys/

Noun

autobus m (plural autobus)

1. bus, coach (vehicle)

Descendants

• ? Spanish: autobús

See also

• autocar

Further reading

• “autobus” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From French autobus.

Pronunciation

Noun

autobus m (invariable)

1. bus

   Synonym: pullman

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aw?t?.bus/

Noun

autobus m inan

1. bus

Declension

Derived terms

• autobusowy

Further reading

• autobus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Noun

autobus n (plural autobuse)

1. Alternative form of autobuz

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English autobus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aut??bus/
• Hyphenation: a?u?to?bus

Noun

autóbus m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. bus

Declension

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?au?t?bus/

Noun

autobus m (genitive singular autobusa, autobusu, nominative plural autobusy, genitive plural autobusov, declension pattern of dub)

1. a bus

Declension

Derived terms

• autobusový

Related terms

• mikrobus
• trolejbus

See also

• elektri?ka

Further reading

• autobus in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

English

Etymology

motor +? bus

Noun

motorbus (plural motorbuses or motorbusses)

1. A motorised bus, or coach.
   • 1930, F. Scott Fitzgerald, “One Trip Abroad,” The Saturday Evening Post, 11 October, 1930,^[1]

     In the afternoon the air became black with locusts, and some of the women shrieked, sinking to the floor of the motorbus and covering their hair with traveling rugs.

   • 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, 2001, Part One, Chapter 4,

     The world beyond the sugarcane fields was remote and the village was linked to it only by villagers’ carts and bicycles, wholesalers’ vans and lorries, and an occasional private motorbus that ran to no timetable and along no fixed route.

Synonyms

• autobus, bus, coach, loser cruiser, motorcoach, omnibus