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/

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• (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 bus that is a motor vehicle, 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

• autobus (cycling) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• glossary of cycling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “autobus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• 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, L. (1999) “autobus”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary

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autobus inan

1. bus

• IPA^(key): [ˈau̯tobus]

autobus m inan (relational adjective autobusový)

1. bus, coach, omnibus
2. woodlouse

• “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), 2008–2025

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯.toːˌbʏs/, /ˈoː.toːˌbʏs/

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• Hyphenation: au‧to‧bus

autobus m (plural autobussen, diminutive autobusje n)

1. bus, coach (vehicle)

• → Indonesian: otobus

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

• IPA^(key): /o.tɔ.bys/

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autobus m (plural autobus)

1. bus, coach (vehicle)

• → Catalan: autobús
• → German: Autobus
• → Greek: οτομπούς (otompoús), οτομπίς (otompís) (Egyptiot Dialect)
• → Hebrew: אוֹטוֹבּוּס (ótobus)
• → Persian: اتوبوس (otobus)
• → Polish: autobus
  • → Belarusian: аўтобус (aŭtóbus)
• → 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/

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

autobus m (invariable)

1. bus

   Synonym: pullman

• autobús

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autobus m (plural autobus) (Limousin)

1. bus

   Synonym: autobussa

2. motorcoach

   Synonym: autocar

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

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

• IPA^(key): /awˈtɔ.bus/

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• 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)

• → Belarusian: аўтобус (aŭtóbus)

• autobus in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• autobus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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)

1. bus

• autobuska stanica (Serbia)
• autobusna stanica (Croatia)

• IPA^(key): /ˈau̯tɔbus/

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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, 2003–2025