bigam

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English

Etymology

From Latin bigamus (twice married): compare French bigame. See bigamy.

Noun

bigam (plural bigams)

  1. (obsolete) A bigamist.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bigam”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Noun

bīgam

  1. accusative singular of bīga

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French bigame.

Noun

bigam m (plural bigami)

  1. bigamist

Declension