Editing Bus (section)

==Name==
[[File:Omnibus - Project Gutenberg eText 16943.jpg|thumb|An early horse-drawn omnibus from mid-nineteenth century]]

The word ''bus'' is a [[clipping (morphology)|shortened]] form of the Latin [[adjective|adjectival form]] {{Lang|la|omnibus}} ("for all"), the [[dative]] plural of {{Lang|la|omnis/omne}} ("all").<ref name="Cassell">{{cite dictionary|editor-first1=J.R.V.|editor-last1=Marchant|editor-first2=Joseph F.|editor-last2=Charles|year=1928|edition=Revised|title=Cassell's Latin Dictionary}}</ref> The theoretical full name is in French {{Lang|fr|voiture omnibus}}<ref name=EB1911/> ("vehicle for all"). The name originates from a mass-transport service started in 1823 by a French corn-mill owner named {{ill|Stanislas Baudry|fr}} in Richebourg, a suburb of [[Nantes]]. A by-product of his mill was hot water, and thus next to it he established a [[spa]] business. In order to encourage customers he started a horse-drawn transport service from the city centre of Nantes to his establishment. The first vehicles stopped in front of the shop of a hatter named Omnés, which displayed a large sign inscribed "Omnes Omnibus", a pun on his Latin-sounding surname, {{Lang|la|omnes}} being the masculine and feminine nominative, vocative and accusative form of the Latin adjective {{Lang|la|omnis/-e}} ("all"),<ref name=Cassell/> combined with ''omnibus'', the dative plural form meaning "for all", thus giving his shop the name "Omnés for all", or "everything for everyone".

His transport scheme was a huge success, although not as he had intended as most of his passengers did not visit his spa. He turned the transport service into his principal lucrative business venture and closed the mill and spa.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://amtuir.org/03_htu_generale/htu_1_avant_1870/htu_1.htm |title=La préhistoire des transports urbains |trans-title=The prehistory of urban transport |publisher=Transportation Museum |language=fr |location=Chelles, Seine-et-Marne, France |access-date=22 February 2019 |archive-date=22 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210322134041/https://amtuir.org/03_htu_generale/htu_1_avant_1870/htu_1.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Nantes citizens soon gave the nickname "omnibus" to the vehicle.<ref name=EB1911/> Having invented the successful concept Baudry moved to Paris and launched the first omnibus service there in April 1828.<ref name=EB1911/> A similar service was introduced in [[John_Greenwood_(bus_operator)|Manchester]] in 1824 and in London in 1829.{{Sfn|Fierro|1996|page=1031}}<ref>{{cite dictionary
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 |dictionary=Online Etymology Dictionary
 |access-date=30 March 2013
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 |access-date=16 September 2010
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