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French
Pronunciation
Verb
bipes
- second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of biper
Latin
Etymology
From bi- + pēs.
Pronunciation
Adjective
bipēs (genitive bipedis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- two-footed, bipedal
- Vergil, Georgicon IV, 389 (edited and translated by H. Rushton Fairclough, Virgil with an English translation I, 1916)
- Est in Carpathio Neptuni gurgite vates, | caeruleus Proteus, magnum qui piscibus aequor | et iuncto bipedum curru metitur equorum.
- In Neptune's Carpathian flood there dweels a seer, Proteus, of sea-green hue, who traverses the mighty main in his car drawn by fishes and a team of two-footed steeds.
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
Descendants
References
- “bipes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “bipes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- bipes in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- bipes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Welsh
Pronunciation
Verb
bipes
- Soft mutation of pipes.
Mutation