bibulus

See also: Bibulus

Latin

Etymology

From bibō (“drink”) +‎ -ulus, from Proto-Italic *pibō, from Proto-Indo-European *píph₃eti, from the root *peh₃- (“drink”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.bu.lus/, [ˈbɪbʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.bu.lus/, [ˈbiːbulus]

Adjective

bibulus (feminine bibula, neuter bibulum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Fond of drinking; drinking readily or freely; frequently thirsty; bibulous.
2. (of inanimate things) That sucks in or absorbs; absorbent, porous, bibulous.
3. (figuratively) Ready to hear; thirsty to listen; listening.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	bibulus	bibula	bibulum		bibulī	bibulae	bibula
genitive	bibulī	bibulae	bibulī		bibulōrum	bibulārum	bibulōrum
dative	bibulō	bibulae	bibulō		bibulīs
accusative	bibulum	bibulam	bibulum		bibulōs	bibulās	bibula
ablative	bibulō	bibulā	bibulō		bibulīs
vocative	bibule	bibula	bibulum		bibulī	bibulae	bibula

Related terms

• bibāx
• bibilis
• bibiō
• bibitor
• bibō
• bibōnius
• bibōsus

Descendants

• → English: bibulous
• Italian: bibulo

References

• “bibulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bibulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bibulus 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)
• bibulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• bibulus in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 822
• “bibulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “bibulus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray