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
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 | |||
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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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