bombyx

From Latin bombyx, from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux). Compare bombast.

bombyx (plural bombyxes)

1. Any member of the genus Bombyx of true silkmoths, whose caterpillars often feed on mulberries.

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From Latin bombyx, from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux).

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• IPA^(key): /bɔ̃.biks/

bombyx m (plural bombyx)

1. bombyx

   Synonym: ver à soie (“silkworm”)

2. (archaic, obsolete) a type of woodwind instrument

• “bombyx”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux); see Middle Persian pmbk' for more.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbom.byːks/, [ˈbɔmbyːks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbom.biks/, [ˈbɔmbiks]

bombȳx m (genitive bombȳcis); third declension

1. silkworm

Third-declension noun.

• bombȳcinus

• English: bombyx
• French: bombyx m
• Spanish: bómbice m
• Italian: bombice m
• Translingual: Bombyx

• “bombyx”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bombyx”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bombyx in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “bombyx”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers