autobus
English
    
WOTD – 13 July 2022
    Etymology
    

The autobus (sense 2) at Stage 10 of the 2005 Tour de France.
From auto- (prefix meaning ‘self’, in the sense of being self-propelled) + bus. Sense 2 (“large group of cyclists who have fallen behind the peloton”) is borrowed from French autobus.
Pronunciation
    
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɔːtə(ʊ)bʌs/
- Audio (Southern England) - (file) 
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɔtoʊˌbʌs/, [ˈɔɾə-]
- Hyphenation: au‧to‧bus
Noun
    
autobus (plural autobuses or autobusses)
- (road transport, dated) A bus that is a motor vehicle, as opposed to earlier horse-drawn buses.
- (by extension, cycle racing) A large group of cyclists who have fallen behind the peloton (“main group of riders”) in a race.
- Synonyms: groupetto, gruppetto, laughing group
 
Translations
    
bus that is a motor vehicle
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large group of cyclists who have fallen behind the peloton
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Further reading
    
 autobus (cycling) on  Wikipedia.Wikipedia autobus (cycling) on  Wikipedia.Wikipedia
 glossary of cycling on  Wikipedia.Wikipedia glossary of cycling on  Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “autobus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Anagrams
    
Albanian
    
    
Basque
    
    
Declension
    
Declension of autobus (inanimate, ending in consonant)
| indefinite | singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| absolutive | autobus | autobusa | autobusak | 
| ergative | autobusek | autobusak | autobusek | 
| dative | autobusi | autobusari | autobusei | 
| genitive | autobusen | autobusaren | autobusen | 
| comitative | autobusekin | autobusarekin | autobusekin | 
| causative | autobusengatik | autobusarengatik | autobusengatik | 
| benefactive | autobusentzat | autobusarentzat | autobusentzat | 
| instrumental | autobusez | autobusaz | autobusez | 
| inessive | autobusetan | autobusean | autobusetan | 
| locative | autobusetako | autobuseko | autobusetako | 
| allative | autobusetara | autobusera | autobusetara | 
| terminative | autobusetaraino | autobuseraino | autobusetaraino | 
| directive | autobusetarantz | autobuserantz | autobusetarantz | 
| destinative | autobusetarako | autobuserako | autobusetarako | 
| ablative | autobusetatik | autobusetik | autobusetatik | 
| partitive | autobusik | — | — | 
| prolative | autobustzat | — | — | 
Czech
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): [ˈau̯tobus]
Declension
    
Derived terms
    
Dutch
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈɑu̯.toːˌbʏs/, /ˈoː.toːˌbʏs/
- Audio - (file) 
- Hyphenation: au‧to‧bus
Descendants
    
- → Indonesian: otobus
References
    
- Philippa, Marlies; Debrabandere, Frans; Quak, Arend; Schoonheim, Tanneke; van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
French
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- Audio - (file) 
Derived terms
    
- autobus à impériale
- autobus à plate-forme
See also
    
Further reading
    
- “autobus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈaw.to.bus/
- Audio - (file) 
- Audio (un'autobus) - (file) 
- Rhymes: -awtobus
- Hyphenation: àu‧to‧bus
Occitan
    
    Alternative forms
    
Further reading
    
- Yves Lavalade, Dictionnaire d'usage occitan/français - Limousin, Marche, Périgord, Institut d'Estudis Occitans dau Lemosin, 2010, →ISBN; page 94
Polish
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /awˈtɔ.bus/
- Audio - (file) 
- Rhymes: -ɔbus
- Syllabification: au‧to‧bus
Declension
    
Romanian
    
    
Declension
    
Declension of autobus
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) autobus | autobusul | (niște) autobuse | autobusele | 
| genitive/dative | (unui) autobus | autobusului | (unor) autobuse | autobuselor | 
| vocative | autobusule | autobuselor | ||
Serbo-Croatian
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /autǒːbus/
- Hyphenation: a‧u‧to‧bus
Slovak
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈau̯tɔbus/
Noun
    
autobus m inan (genitive singular autobusa, autobusu, nominative plural autobusy, genitive plural autobusov, declension pattern of dub)
- a bus
Declension
    
Derived terms
    
See also
    
Further reading
    
- autobus in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
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