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Latin
Etymology
bi- + pāla (“shovel, mattock”)
Pronunciation
Noun
bipālium n (genitive bipāliī or bipālī); second declension
- a double mattock
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References
- “bipalium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- bipalium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.