biremis

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Latin

Etymology

From bi- +‎ rēmus (“oar”) +‎ -is.

Pronunciation

Adjective

birēmis (neuter birēme); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. having two banks of oars

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative birēmis birēme birēmēs birēmia
genitive birēmis birēmium
dative birēmī birēmibus
accusative birēmem birēme birēmēs
birēmīs 		birēmia
ablative birēmī birēmibus
vocative birēmis birēme birēmēs birēmia

Noun

birēmis f (genitive birēmis); third declension

  1. 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).

singular plural
nominative birēmis birēmēs
genitive birēmis birēmium
dative birēmī birēmibus
accusative birēmem birēmēs
birēmīs
ablative birēme
birēmī 		birēmibus
vocative birēmis birēmēs

Descendants

  • → English: bireme (learned)
  • → French: birème (learned)
  • → German: Bireme (learned)
  • → Italian: bireme (learned)

Further reading

  • “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
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