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Цитата: oort от июля 21, 2011, 14:39
Тогда уж и «вселенский».

Цитата: Python от августа  1, 2011, 17:17
Ну, шиной вообще что-угодно называют. Что общего, например, у автомобильной покрышки и твердой доски, к которой привязывают сломанную руку?

Цитироватьthey were named after electrical power buses, or busbars.

Цитироватьbus bar noun

: a conductor or an assembly of conductors for collecting electric currents and distributing them to outgoing feeders
First Known Use of BUS BAR 1893

Цитироватьbus
1832, abbreviation of omnibus (q.v.). The English word is simply a Latin dative plural ending.

ЦитироватьBus is an apheresis of the Latin word Omnibus. The latter name is derived from a hatter's shop which was situated in front of one of the first bus station in Nantes, France in 1823. "Omnes Omnibus" was a pun on the Latin sounding name of that hatter Omnès: omnes meaning "all" and omnibus means "for all" in Latin. Nantes citizen soon gave the nickname of Omnibus to the vehicle.[2] When motorized transport replaced horse-drawn transport starting 1905, a motorized omnibus was called an autobus, a term still used.

ЦитироватьBus is, of course, short for omnibus. The first person on record as using it was the British writer Harriet Martineau, who spelled it buss: 'if the station offers me a place in the buss', Weal and woe in Garveloch 1832. Omnibus itself was borrowed from French, where it was first applied in 1828 to a voiture omnibus, literally 'carriage for everyone' (omnibus is the dative plural of Latin omnis 'all').

Цитата: Oleg Grom от USB = Универсальный Серийный Автобус