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Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós)

Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr

English autobus

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.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɔːtə(ʊ)bʌs/
• (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɔtoʊˌbʌs/, [ˈɔɾə-]
• (cot_–_caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈɑtoʊˌbʌs/, [ˈɑɾə-]
• Hyphenation: au‧to‧bus

autobus (plural autobuses or autobusses)

1. (road transport, dated) A motorbus, as opposed to earlier horse-drawn buses.
2. (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

bus that is a motor vehicle

• Albanian: autobus (sq) m

• Arabic: أُتُوبُوس m (ʔutūbūs), أُتُوبِيس m (ʔutūbīs)
  Moroccan Arabic: طوبيس m (tobis)

• Aramaic:
  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܘܿܛܘܿܒܘܼܣ m (ōṭōbūs), ܡܵܘܒܠܵܢܬܵܐ f (māwblāntā)

• Azerbaijani: avtobus (az)

• Basque: autobus (eu)

• Belarusian: аўто́бус (be) m (awtóbus)

• Bezhta: автобус (avtobus)

• Crimean Tatar: avtobus

• Czech: autobus (cs) m

• Dutch: autobus (nl) m

• Esperanto: aŭtobuso (eo)

• French: autobus (fr) m

• Galician: autobús m

• German: Autobus (de) m

• Greek: οτομπίς n (otompís) (Egyptiot dialect), οτομπούς n (otompoús) (Egyptiot dialect)

• Indonesian: otobus (id)

• Italian: autobus (it) m

• Karakalpak: аўтобус

• Khmer: អូតូប៊ុស (ʼoutoubuh)

• Latvian: autobuss m

• Malagasy: aotobosy (mg)

• Persian: اتوبوس (fa) (otobus)

• Polish: autobus (pl) m

• Romanian: autobus (ro) n, autobuz (ro) n

• Russian: авто́бус (ru) m (avtóbus)

• Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: ауто́бус m
  Latin: autóbus (sh) m

• Sicilian: autubbussu m

• Slovak: autobus (sk) m

• Slovene: ȃvtobus (sl) m

• Spanish: autobús (es) m (Spain, Venezuela)

• Tajik: автобус (tg) (avtobus)

• Turkish: otobüs (tr)
  Ottoman Turkish: اتوبوس (otobüs)

• Uzbek: avtobus (uz)

• Vietnamese: ô tô buýt (vi)

• Yiddish: ויטאָבוס m (oytobus)

• autosub

Internationalism, compare Italian autobus.

autobús m (plural autobúsë, definite autobúsi)

1. bus

• “autobus”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎[1], 1980
• Newmark, Leonard (1999), “autobus”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press

autobus inan

1. bus

• IPA(key): [ˈau̯tobus]

autobus m inan (relational adjective autobusový)

1. bus, coach, omnibus
2. woodlouse (Can we verify(+) this sense?)

• “autobus”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “autobus”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “autobus”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

From English autobus or French autobus.[1] Equivalent to auto +‎ bus.

• IPA(key): /ˈɑu̯.toːˌbʏs/, /ˈoː.toːˌbʏs/
• Hyphenation: au‧to‧bus

autobus m (plural autobussen, diminutive autobusje n)

1. bus, coach (vehicle)

• → Indonesian: otobus

1. ^ 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

Coined in Paris in 1907 as a compound of automobile +‎ omnibus.

• IPA(key): /o.tɔ.bys/

autobus m (invariable)

1. bus, coach (vehicle)

• autobus à impériale

• autobus à plate-forme

• → Catalan: autobús

• → German: Autobus

• → Greek: οτομπούς (otompoús), οτομπίς (otompís) (Egyptiot Dialect)

• → Hebrew: אוֹטוֹבּוּס (ótobus)

• → Persian: اتوبوس (otobus)

• → Polish: autobus

  • → Belarusian: аўтобус (awtóbus)

• → Romanian: autobuz

• → Russian: авто́бус (avtóbus) (see there for further descendants)

• → Spanish: autobús

• → Turkish: otobüs

• autocar

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

Unadapted borrowing from French autobus.

• IPA(key): /ˈaw.to.bus/

• Audio (un'autobus):	(file)

• Rhymes: -awtobus
• Hyphenation: àu‧to‧bus

autobus m (invariable)

1. bus
   Synonym: pullman

• autobús

autobus m (plural **autobus) (Limousin)

1. bus
   Synonym: autobussa
2. motorcoach
   Synonym: autocar

• Yves Lavalade (2010), Dictionnaire d'usage occitan/français - Limousin, Marche, Périgord (in French), Institut d'Estudis Occitans dau Lemosin, →ISBN; page 94

autobus

Internationalism; compare French autobus, German Autobus, Russian авто́бус (avtóbus). By surface analysis, auto- +‎ bus.

• IPA(key): /awˈtɔ.bus/
• Rhymes: -ɔbus
• Syllabification: au‧to‧bus

autobus m animal or m inan (diminutive autobusik, related adjective autobusowy)

1. bus (motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads)

• autobus szynowy

• bus

• e-autobus

• → Belarusian: аўтобус (awtóbus)

• “autobus”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN

• “autobus”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[3] (in Polish)

autobus n (plural autobuse)

1. alternative form of autobuz

Borrowed from English autobus.

• IPA(key): /autǒːbus/
• Hyphenation: a‧u‧to‧bus

autóbus m inan (Cyrillic spelling ауто́бус, relational adjective autobuski or autobusni)

1. bus

• autobuska stanica (Serbia)
• autobusna stanica (Croatia)
• IPA(key): /ˈau̯tɔbus/

• Audio (Bratislava):	(file)

autobus m inan (relational adjective autobusový)

1. a bus

• mikrobus
• trolejbus
• električka
• “autobus”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026