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Latin
Etymology
From bi- (“occurring twice, having two parts”) + iugus (“joined, yoked”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
biiugus (feminine biiuga, neuter biiugum); first/second-declension adjective
- pertaining to two like members joined together, (especially with horses or draft animals): yoked in a pair
20 BCE,
Publius Vergilius Maro,
The Aeneid :
- Tum Pallās biiugīs fugientem Rhoetea praeter / trāicit. Hōc spatium tantumque morae fuit Īlō; / Īlō namque procul validam dērēxerat hastam, / quam medius Rhoeteus intercipit, optime Teuthrā, / tē fugiēns frātremque Tyrēn, currūque volūtus / caedit sēmianimis Rutulōrum calcibus arva.
Early 5th century CE,
Maurus Servius Honoratus,
In Vergilii Aeneidem commentarii :
- Biiugis erit nominativus hic biiugus: nam alias biiugibus faceret, si esset tertiae formae ab eo quod est 'hic biiugis, huius biiugis'.
- This biiugus might otherwise be called 'biiugibus', which in the nominative is 'biiugis', if I were advancing from the third form (read: third declension) which is (read: gives us) 'hic biiugis, huius biiugis'.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “biiugus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers