bombax

 

Borrowed from Latin [Term?].

bombax (plural bombaxes)

1. Any member of the genus Bombax of tropical trees in the mallow family.

• (tree in Bombax): cotton tree

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbom.baks/, [ˈbɔmbäks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbom.baks/, [ˈbɔmbäks]

From Ancient Greek βομβάξ (bombáx).

bombax

1. indeed! strange! Used to express real or affected surprise.

Ultimately from Ancient Greek βόμβυξ (bómbux, “silkworm”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

bombax

1. silk cotton tree

• Old French: bombace
  • English: bombast
    • → German: Bombast
      • → Norwegian Bokmål: bombast
• → Translingual: Bombax (learned)

• “bombax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bombax in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• bombax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.