different between bombus vs bourdon

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bombus/

Verb

bombus

1. conditional of bombi

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (bómbos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?bom.bus/, [?b?mb?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?bom.bus/, [?b?mbus]

Noun

bombus m (genitive bomb?); second declension

1. A buzz or humming sound.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• bomb?sus
• bombisonus
• bombula

Related terms

Descendants

• Translingual: Bombus
• Italian: bombo
  • ? French: bombe
    • ? English: bomb (see there for further descendants)
    • ? Norwegian Bokmål: bombe
• Sicilian: bumma
• Spanish: bombo, bomba

References

• bombus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bombus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bombus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• bombus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French bourdon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??d?n/

Noun

bourdon (plural bourdons)

1. (music, archaic) The burden or bass of a melody.
   • 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:

     The earth tremors resumed and made a bourdon to the loud psalms that they sang, interspersed with the odd ode of Horace recited by Silas.

2. The drone pipe of a bagpipe.
3. The lowest-pitched stop of an organ.
   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vintage 2007, p. 5:

     The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.

4. The lowest-pitched bell of a carillon.
5. A large, low-pitched bell not part of a diatonically tuned ring of bells.
6. A bumblebee, genus Bombus.
7. A pilgrim's staff.

Translations

Anagrams

• obround

French

Etymology

From Middle French bourdon (“honeybee, bumblebee”), from Old French bordon (“bumblebee, drone, beetle, insect”), from Medieval Latin burdo (c. C.E. 1000), first recorded in the Homilies of King Ælfric, glossed by Old English dora (“bumblebee”). Of uncertain origin. Possibly from Frankish *bordo, *burdo (“beetle, insect”), from Proto-Germanic *buzdô (“beetle, grub", literally, "swelling”), from *b?s- (“to erupt, burst, flow rapidly”), from Proto-Indo-European *b??s- (“to move quickly”), related to Old English budda (“beetle”), Middle Low German buddech (“thick, swollen”), Low German budde (“louse, grub”). See bug.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?.d??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

bourdon m (plural bourdons)

1. bumblebee (species of bee)
2. (music) drone
3. (figuratively, colloquial) blues (feeling of sadness)

   Synonym: cafard

Derived terms

• faux-bourdon
• bourdonner
• bourdonnement

Further reading

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

Louisiana Creole French

Etymology

From French bourdon (“bee”).

Noun

bourdon

1. bee, wasp

References

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

Norman

Etymology

From Old French bordon (“bumblebee, drone, beetle, insect”), from Medieval Latin burdo.

Noun

bourdon m (plural bourdons)

1. (Jersey) bumblebee

Synonyms

• bourde

Derived terms