The story
- Ancient Greekβόμβος (bómbos)
- Latinbombus
- Italianbomba
- Frenchbombe
- English todaybomb
From French bombe, from Italian bomba, from Latin bombus (“a booming sound”), from Ancient Greek βόμβος (bómbos, “booming, humming, buzzing”), imitative of the sound itself. Doublet of bombe. Compare boom.
Words from the same roots
Frenchbombe all →
bombebombébombous
Ancient Greekβόμβος all →
bomphiologia
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.