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omnibus

/ɔm.ni.bys/

noun, masculine/ɔm.ni.bys/

omnibus, bus (especially, a 19th-century horse-drawn omnibus)

Related: aéro-omnibus

Ellipsis of voiture omnibus (“carriage for all”), the latter element being a learned borrowing from Latin omnibus (“for all”), dative plural of omnis (“all”).

adjective/ɔm.ni.bys/

local (of a train; making stops at all stations)

un train omnibusa local train

Ellipsis of voiture omnibus (“carriage for all”), the latter element being a learned borrowing from Latin omnibus (“for all”), dative plural of omnis (“all”).