bombyx

From translingual 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.
   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 80:

     Most mammifera exhale, in the rutting season, peculiar emanations serving to annouce to the male the presence of the female, and excite in him the sexual desire. This situation is true also in the case of insects, for example, in the female of the bombyx butterfly[.]

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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 Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔm.byːks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbɔm.biks]

bombȳx m (genitive bombȳcis); third declension

1. silkworm

Third-declension noun.

• bombȳcinus

• English: bombyx
• French: bombyx m
• Spanish: bómbice m
• Italian: bombice m, baco
• 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