bombax
See also: Bombax
English
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Bombax ceiba flower
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin [Term?].
Noun
bombax (plural bombaxes)
- Any member of the genus Bombax of tropical trees in the mallow family.
Synonyms
- (tree in Bombax): cotton tree
See also
bombax on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
bombax on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbom.baks/, [ˈbɔmbäks̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbom.baks/, [ˈbɔmbäks]
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek βομβάξ (bombáx).
Interjection
bombax
- indeed! strange! Used to express real or affected surprise.
Etymology 2
Ultimately from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux, “silkworm”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
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Descendants
- Old French: bombace
- English: bombast
- → German: Bombast
- → Norwegian Bokmål: bombast
- → German: Bombast
- English: bombast
References
- “bombax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- bombax in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- bombax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette