Where does “Airbus” come from?
Airbus derives from English air and English bus, with air tracing through Middle English air and Anglo-Norman eir to Latin aēr meaning air or atmosphere.
Airbus (English): A European multinational commercial aircraft manufacturer
Definitions
- A European multinational commercial aircraft manufacturer
Ancestry of “Airbus”, step by step
Airbus traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English bus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | bus | A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of... |
| 2 | English | omnibus | A vehicle set up to carry many people; An... |
| 3 | French | omnibus | Pertaining to a local; omnibus, bus |
| 4 | Latin | omnibus | dative masculine plural of omnis; dative feminine... |
| 5 | Latin | omnis | every; all |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | opnis | every, all |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ep-ni-s | working |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ep- | to work, toil, make; ability, force |