bipennis

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bipennis (“two-winged”).

Noun

bipennis (plural bipennes)

  1. (archaic) An axe with an edge or blade on each side of the handle.
    • 1937, Starnes, D. T., “Bilingual Dictionaries of Shakespeare’s Day”, in PMLA‎, volume 52, number 4, page 1009:
      Bipennis... A twibill, axe, or twall, sharpe on both sides, wherewith carpenters make mortaises: it was in old time a weapon

Synonyms

Latin

Etymology

From bi- (“two-”) +‎ penna (“wing”) +‎ -is (adjective-forming suffix). As a noun, ellipsis of bipennis secūris f (“two-edged axe”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

bipennis (neuter bipenne); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. two-edged
  2. two-winged

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative bipennis bipenne bipennēs bipennia
genitive bipennis bipennium
dative bipennī bipennibus
accusative bipennem bipenne bipennēs
bipennīs 		bipennia
ablative bipennī bipennibus
vocative bipennis bipenne bipennēs bipennia

Noun

bipennis f (genitive bipennis); third declension

  1. A double-edged battle axe.

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

singular plural
nominative bipennis bipennēs
genitive bipennis bipennium
dative bipennī bipennibus
accusative bipennem bipennēs
bipennīs
ablative bipenne bipennibus
vocative bipennis bipennēs

Derived terms

References

  • “bipennis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “bipennis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • bipennis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “bipennis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “bipennis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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