bipalium

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Latin

Etymology

bi- +‎ pāla (shovel, mattock)

Pronunciation

Noun

bipālium n (genitive bipāliī or bipālī); second declension

  1. a double mattock

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative bipālium bipālia
genitive bipāliī
bipālī1
bipāliōrum
dative bipāliō bipāliīs
accusative bipālium bipālia
ablative bipāliō bipāliīs
vocative bipālium bipālia

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.