bulbus
Ὁ συκοφάντης ἐστὶν ἐν πόλει λύκος (τοῖς πέλας λύκος) → Calumniator, quemquem novit, huic lupus'st → Der Denunziant lebt in der Stadt gleichsam als Wolf (ist seinen Nachbarn wie ein Wolf)
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
bulbus: (bulbŏs), i, m. βολβός.
I A bulb, bulbous root (tulips, hyacinths, lilies, etc.), Plin. 19, 4, 21, § 61; cf. Cels. 2, 18; Plin. 17, 20, 33, § 144; 21, 5, 11, § 24; 22, 22, 32, § 67 sq.—
II An onion; a garden vegetable of several kinds, among which the Megarean was the best known, Cato, R. R. 8, 2; Ov. R. Am. 797; Col. 10, 106; 4, 32, 2; Plin. 19, 5, 30, § 93; in Apic. 8, 7, and in Edict. Diocl. p. 16, called bulbus fabrilis.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
bulbus,¹³ ī, m. (βολβός), bulbe, oignon de plante : Plin. 19, 61 || oignons d’espèces diverses : Cato Agr. 8, 2 ; Col. Rust. 10, 106 ; Apic. 8, 384.
qqf. bolbus, bulvus, vulvus, volvus d. les mss.
