bus
UK[bʌs]US[bʌs]
n
A large motor vehicle designed to carry many passengers, typically along a fixed route.
v
To travel by bus.
v
To transport or clear (people or things) by bus.
Etymology
The word 'bus' is a shortened form of 'omnibus', a Latin word meaning "for all," which was used in the early 19th century to name a new public transport service. 'Omnibus' itself is the dative plural of the Latin 'omnis', meaning "all," implying the vehicle was intended for the use of everyone. The clipping to 'bus' occurred naturally in English usage, reflecting a common linguistic tendency to shorten long, commonly used words. Thus, the modern term retains the core idea of a public conveyance, stripped of its original grammatical Latin case ending.
Analysis
The word is a simplex. It is a clipped form of the word 'omnibus'.
Examples
She takes the bus to work every morning.
The children were bussed to a school in another district.
We waited for over twenty minutes at the bus stop.