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名詞

bombax (plural bombaxes)

1. Any member of the genus Bombax of tropical trees in the mallow family.

同意語

• (tree in Bombax): cotton tree

参考

• bombax on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• bombax on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

語源 1

From Ancient Greek βομβάξ (bombáx).

間投詞

bombax

1. indeed! strange! Used to express real or affected surprise.

語源 2

Ultimately from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux, “silkworm”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

名詞

bombax

1. silk cotton tree

派生した語

• Old French: bombace
  • English: bombast
    • → German: Bombast
      • → Norwegian Bokmål: bombast
• → Translingual: Bombax (learned)

参照

• “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.