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bomb (n.) "explosive projectile," originally consisting of a hollow ball or shell filled with explosive material, 1580s, from French bombe , from Italian bomba , probably from Latin bombus "a deep, hollow noise; a buzzing or booming sound," from Greek bombos "deep and hollow sound," echoic.
- Deutsch (German)
The bomb "die Atombombe" stammt aus dem Jahr 1945....
- Français (French)
The bomb "la bombe atomique" date de 1945. Comparez avec...
- Bomb 뜻
bomb 뜻: 폭탄; "폭발성 탄환," 원래는 폭발물로 채워진 빈 공 또는 껍질로 이루어진 것으로,...
- Bomb-Proof
The bomb "the atomic bomb" is from 1945. ... (1903 as push),...
- Bombastic
Middle English -ik, -ick, word-forming element making...
- Bombardment
"continuous attack with shot and shell," 1702, from bombard...
- Carpet-Bombing
Related: Carpet-bomb; carpet-bombed. also from 1945. Entries...
- Bombardier
early 15c., "catapult, military engine for throwing large...
- Deutsch (German)
Jan 21, 2016 · According to Jack Kelly, historian and author of Gunpowder: Alchemy, Bombards & Pyrotechnics, those bombs were specifically mortar bombs that used gunpowder, now referred to as black powder,...
Early usage. In 2015, Dr. Paul Booth argued he had found " (possibly) the earliest known use of the word 'fuck' that clearly has a sexual connotation": in English court records of 1310–11, a man local to Chester is referred to as "Roger Fuckebythenavele", probably a nickname.
A theory as to the possible origin: It may be that some prize fighter adopted "The Bomb" (or perhaps "Da Bomb") as his nom de fist and the term was lifted from there to apply to powerful personalities in music.
OED's earliest evidence for bomb is from 1694, in Philosophical Transactions 1693. It is also recorded as a noun from the late 1500s. bomb is formed within English, by conversion.
English word bomb comes from Ancient Greek (to 1453) βόμβος, Ancient Greek (to 1453) όμβος, Dutch bombe, and later Latin bombus (A buzz or humming sound.)
The word comes from the Latin bombus, which in turn comes from the Greek βόμβος romanized bombos, [3] an onomatopoetic term meaning 'booming', 'buzzing'. A "wind-and-dust" bomb depicted in the Ming Dynasty book Huolongjing. The pot contains a tube of gunpowder, and was thrown at invaders. [4]
