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Look up Omnibus, omnibus, or omnibuses in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Omnibus is the Latin for for all , and refers to a passenger-carrying vehicle, originally an enclosed horse-drawn one.
Bus is a clipped form of the Latin word omnibus. It appeared in Paris in 1819â20 as (voiture) omnibus meaning (carriage) for all, and appeared in London in 1829. One etymology holds that omnibus is derived from a hatter's shop which was situated in front of one of the first bus stations in Nantes, France in 1823. Omnes Omnibus was a pun on the Latin-sounding name of that hatter Omnes: omnÃ¨s omnes meaning all and omnibus means for all In. latin