laophorium

• lāophoron

From Katharevousa λεωφορείον (leoforeíon) (see Greek λεωφορείο (leoforeío)), with uncontracted λᾱός (lāós) preferred to contracted λεώς (leṓs).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫaː.ɔ.pʰɔˈriː.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [la.o.foˈriː.um]

lāophorīum n (genitive lāophorīī); second declension

1. (New Latin) bus (public transport)

   Synonyms: autoraeda pūblica (literally “public self-moving stagecoach”), autocīnētum lāophorīcum (literally “people-carrying automobile”), raeda longa (literally “long stagecoach”)

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• ómnibus in Carolus Egger (ed.), Lexicon Recentis Latinitatis, Vatican City: Libraria Editoria Vaticana, 1992