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-bula, -bla-, -ula, -la Instrumental suffix. Fossilized in Spanish. From Latin -bula 'id.' From Proto-Italic *-þlo- 'id.' From Proto-Indo-European *-d^hlo- 'id.' Indo-European Romance Asturian -la-, Portuguese -la-, Galician -la-, Catalan -ula-, French -bl(e)-, Italian -ba-, Romanian -bulă* (learned borrowing)* Balto-Slavic Lithuanian -mi, Old Church Slavonic -mĭ Hellenic Mycenaean -pi Armenian Armenian -b Indo-Iranian Sanskrit (inst. pl.) -dhís Present in words like fábula, but less obviously in words like the -bl- in hablar. de Vaan, M. Etymological Dictionary of Latin and Other Italic Languages. BRILL. 2014. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.
bus m. (Noun) "bus" Borrowed from French bus 'id.,' a clipping of earlier omnibus "for all." The name omnibus was applied by Jacques Lafitt in 1820 as part of a larger phrase that did not survive: voiture omnibus "coach for all" (Walsh 1913). Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/.
buscar (Verb) "to search for" 12th cent. Unknown origin but present in some form in Western Vulgar Latin. Perhaps from a hypothetical Vulgar Latin verb *boscare, derived from *boscus "woods," in the sense of searching for kindling. See bosque. Indo-European Romance Asturian buscar "to search," (Palacios del Sil) "to find," Aragonese buscar, Leonese buscare, Portuguese buscar, Galician busca, Italian buscare "to acquire." Corominas, J. & J. Pascual. Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e híspanico. 6 vols. Madrid: Gredos. 1991-1997. Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman. Online. Ed. by É. Buchi & W. Schweickard. 2018. http://www.atilf.fr/DERom. Real Academia Española. Diccionario de la lengua española. Online. 23rd ed. Madrid: Espasa Calpa. 2014. http://www.rae.es/. Sihler, A. New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin. Oxford University Press. 2008.