Word Origin Summary

Bombus is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. βόμβοςAncient Greekborrowed from

Descendants and Related Terms

• บอมบ์

  Thai · borrowed from

• bomba

  Indonesian · borrowed from

• bombo

  Spanish · borrowed from

• bomba

  Spanish · borrowed from

• bombardieren

  German · borrowed from

• bom

  Dutch · borrowed from

• બંબો

  Gujarati · derived from

• bombardemang

  Swedish · derived from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root