Ancient Greek

Noun

βόμβος • ‎(bómbos) m ‎(genitive βόμβου); second declension

1. any deep, hollow sound, humming, buzzing, booming, rumbling

Inflection

References

• βόμβος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βόμβος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «βόμβος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «βόμβος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • boom idem, page 89.
  • buzz idem, page 107.
  • drone idem, page 253.
  • hum idem, page 409.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill

Greek

Noun

βόμβος • ‎(vómvos) m ‎(plural βόμβοι)

1. hornet
2. buzzing, humming (sound)
3. (medicine) tinnitus

Declension

Synonyms

• (tinnitus): εμβοές f pl ‎(emvoés)
• (hornet): αγριομέλισσα f ‎(agriomélissa)