bibulus

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

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

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.

First/second-declension adjective.

• English: bibulous
• Italian: bibulo

• “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