Etymology

busman

bus·man
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Today it means: A person employed to drive a bus. Full definition →

English bus ← French omnibus ← Latin omnibu
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₃ep-
  2. Proto-Italic*opnis
  3. Latinomnis
  4. Latinomnibu
  5. Frenchomnibus
  6. Englishomnibusclip.
  7. Englishbus
  8. English todaybusman

From bus + -man.

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