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Latin
Etymology
From bi- (“two”) + līcium (“thread, loop”). Equals Ancient Greek δίμιτος (dímitos).
Pronunciation
Adjective
bilīx (genitive bilīcis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- having a double thread
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 12.374:
- dum trahitur pendetque jugīs, hunc lāta retēctum
lancea cōnsequitur rumpitque īnfīxa bilīcem
lōrīcam et summum dēgustat vulnere corpus.
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
Descendants
- Old English: twilic (partial calque)
References
- “bilix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “bilix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934) “bilix”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.
- “bilix”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “bilix”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin