# autobus
## English
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɔːtə(ʊ)bʌs/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈɔtoʊˌbʌs/, [ˈɔɾə-]
* (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈɑtoʊˌbʌs/, [ˈɑɾə-]
* Hyphenation: au‧to‧bus

### Noun

autobus (plural autobuses or autobusses)
* (road transport, dated) A bus that is a motor vehicle, as opposed to earlier horse-drawn buses.
* (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

#### Translations
### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* autosub

## Albanian
### Etymology

Internationalism, compare Italian autobus.

### Noun

autobús m (plural autobúsë, definite autobúsi)
* bus

### References

* “autobus”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

## Basque
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

autobus inan
* bus

#### Declension
## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈau̯tobus]

### Noun

autobus m inan (relational adjective autobusový)
* bus, coach, omnibus
* woodlouse

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “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

## Dutch
### Etymology

From English autobus or French autobus. Equivalent to auto +‎ bus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɑu̯.toːˌbʏs/, /ˈoː.toːˌbʏs/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: au‧to‧bus

### Noun

autobus m (plural autobussen, diminutive autobusje n)
* bus, coach (vehicle)

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: otobus

### References

* ↑ Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

## French
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /o.tɔ.bys/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

autobus m (plural autobus)
* bus, coach (vehicle)

#### Derived terms

* autobus à impériale
* autobus à plate-forme

#### Descendants

* → 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

### See also

* autocar

### Further reading

* “autobus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French autobus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaw.to.bus/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio (un'autobus):(file)
* Rhymes: -awtobus
* Hyphenation: àu‧to‧bus

### Noun

autobus m (invariable)
* bus
    Synonym: pullman

## Occitan
### Alternative forms

* autobús

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

autobus m (plural autobus) (Limousin)
* bus
    Synonym: autobussa
* motorcoach
    Synonym: autocar

### Further reading

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

## Polish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /awˈtɔ.bus/
* Audio 1:(file)
* Audio 2:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔbus
* Syllabification: au‧to‧bus

### Noun

autobus m animal or m inan (diminutive autobusik, related adjective autobusowy)
* bus (motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads)

#### Derived terms

* autobus szynowy
* bus
* e-autobus

#### Descendants

* → Belarusian: аўтобус (aŭtóbus)

### Further reading

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

## Romanian
### Noun

autobus n (plural autobuse)
* Alternative form of autobuz

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

From English autobus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /autǒːbus/
* Hyphenation: a‧u‧to‧bus

### Noun

autóbus m (Cyrillic spelling ауто́бус)
* bus

#### Derived terms

* autobuska stanica (Serbia)
* autobusna stanica (Croatia)

## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈau̯tɔbus/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

autobus m inan (relational adjective autobusový)
* a bus

#### Related terms

* mikrobus
* trolejbus

### See also

* električka

### Further reading

* “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