A shortened form of omnibus, or a horse-drawn wagon. The name was borrowed from the French voiture omnibus (vehicle for all) and is a dative plural form of the Latin adjective omnis, meaning “for everyone.”
Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins by William and Mary Morris, 1977.
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