biga

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See also: Biga, bigă, and bigą

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bīga.

Noun

biga (plural bigas or bigae)

  1. (historical) A Roman racing chariot drawn by two horses abreast.

Translations

Translations

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Anagrams

Basque

Noun

biga ?

  1. calf

Numeral

biga

  1. two

Catalan

Etymology

Uncertain; probably from Latin bīga (“tree-trunk”). Cognate with Portuguese viga, Spanish viga, Occitan biga.

Pronunciation

Noun

biga f (plural bigues)

  1. beam, as in a large piece of wood or metal serving a structural role in a building

Further reading

Cebuano

Noun

biga

  1. semen
  2. pre-ejaculate
  3. lust; a feeling of strong desire, especially such a feeling driven by sexual arousal

Verb

biga

  1. to be in heat
  2. to be randy; to feel horny
  3. to lust

Italian

Etymology

From Latin bīga.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbi.ɡa/
  • Rhymes: -iɡa
  • Hyphenation: bì‧ga

Noun

biga f (plural bighe)

  1. (historical) chariot (two-wheeled)
  2. (baking) pre-ferment sponge, similar to poolish (bread starter)
    • 2018, Piergiorgio Giorilli, Il grande libro del pane, Kindle edition, Milan: Gribaudo, →ISBN:
      Gli impasti a base di biga hanno particolari proprietà viscoso-elastiche e risultano particolarmente lisci ed estensibili. […] Infatti spesso per realizzare le ricette, come pasta dura o pane pugliese, vengono utilizzate tutte e due, sia biga sia pasta di riporto, in modo da sfruttare le peculiarità di ambedue le paste.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

Jamaican Creole

Adjective

biga

  1. comparative degree of big
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Latin

Etymology

bi- +‎ iuga

Pronunciation

Noun

bīga f (genitive bīgae); first declension

  1. chariot (two-wheeled)
  2. (in the plural) pair of horses

Usage notes

Exclusively used in the plural in pre-Augustan Latin. Seneca and Pliny were the first writers to use it in the singular.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative bīga bīgae
Genitive bīgae bīgārum
Dative bīgae bīgīs
Accusative bīgam bīgās
Ablative bīgā bīgīs
Vocative bīga bīgae

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • Albanian: bigë
  • Aromanian: bigã
  • Catalan: biga
  • → English: biga
  • Italian: biga
  • Occitan: biga
  • → Polish: biga
  • Portuguese: biga
  • Romanian: bigă
  • Spanish: viga

References

  • “biga”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • biga in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • “biga”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “biga”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Laz

Noun

biga

  1. Latin spelling of ბიგა (biga)

Old High German

Alternative forms

Etymology

Related to Old Norse bingr (“heap”) (English bing), from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick”), see also Sanskrit बहुल (bahula, “abundant”).

Noun

bīga f

  1. pile, heap

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Buck, C. D. (2008). A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages. United States: University of Chicago Press, p. 887

Polish

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biga

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbi.ɡa/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -iɡa
  • Syllabification: bi‧ga
  • Homophone: Biga

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin bīga. First attested in the first half of the 19th century.

Noun

biga f

  1. (Ancient Rome, historical) biga (Roman racing chariot drawn by two horses abreast)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German biegen. Doublet of Boh and Bug.

Noun

biga f

  1. (printing) crease (element of the die-cutting machine used to emboss the bend line of the paper)
Declension
Declension of biga
singular plural
nominative biga bigi
genitive bigi big
dative bidze bigom
accusative bigę bigi
instrumental bigą bigami
locative bidze bigach
vocative bigo bigi

References

  1. ^ biga in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Further reading

  • biga in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • biga in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin biga.

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: bi‧ga

Noun

biga f (plural bigas)

  1. chariot (type of vehicle)

Romanian

Pronunciation

Noun

biga f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of bigă

Sardinian

Etymology

Probably from Latin bīga (“tree-trunk”)

Noun

biga

  1. (Campidanese) beam

Tagalog

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbiɡa/, (girder)
  • Hyphenation: bi‧ga

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish viga.

Noun

bigà or biga (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜄ)

  1. (carpentry) girder
See also

Etymology 2

Noun

bigà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜄ)

  1. giant taro (Alocasia macrorrhizos)
    Synonyms: malabiga, badyang

Etymology 3

Noun

bigà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜄ)

  1. flat lowland
    Synonyms: lambak, libis

Etymology 4

Possibly Chinese.

Noun

bigà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜄ)

  1. damp or swampy ground
    Synonyms: labon, latian, tanlak, tunlak

Etymology 5

Noun

bigà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜄ)

  1. root of words meaning "glibness of the tongue", such as malabiga
    Synonyms: daldal, kadaldalan
  2. root of words meaning "fault-finding habit", such as malabiga
    Synonym: pagkamapintasan
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