bicorniger

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

bis (twice) +‎ cornū (horn) +‎ -ger (bearing)

Pronunciation

Adjective

bicorniger (feminine bicornigera, neuter bicornigerum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

  1. two-horned (an epithet of Bacchus)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

References

  • bicorniger”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • bicorniger in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • bicorniger”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers