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Latin
Etymology
From bi- + rēmus (“oar”) + -is.
Pronunciation
Adjective
birēmis (neuter birēme); third-declension two-termination adjective
- having two banks of oars
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Noun
birēmis f (genitive birēmis); third declension
- bireme: a ship with two banks of oars
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.180-183:
- Aenēās scopulum intereā cōnscendit, et omnem
prōspectum lātē pelagō petit, Anthea sī quem
iactātum ventō videat Phrygiāsque birēmīs,
aut Capyn, aut celsīs in puppibus arma Caīcī.- Meanwhile, Aeneas scales a cliff, and searches the whole panorama across the wide open sea, if perhaps he could see anything of Antheus, storm-tossed by wind, and the Phrygian biremes, or Capys, or the shields of Caicus upon lofty stern.
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or -ī).
References
- “biremis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “biremis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- biremis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “biremis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “biremis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin