bidens
See also: Bidens
Latin
Etymology
bi- + dens
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbi.dens/, [ˈbɪd̪ẽːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbi.dens/, [ˈbiːd̪ens]
Adjective
bidēns (genitive bidentis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- two-pronged
- having two blades or teeth
- (transferred) a heavy hoe or mattock with two iron teeth
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.693-694:
- Ille suam peragēbat humum, sīve ūsus arātrī
seu curvae falcis sīve bidentis erat.- He was working the farm himself, whether there was need of a plow
or a curved sickle or a two-pronged [hoe].
- He was working the farm himself, whether there was need of a plow
- Ille suam peragēbat humum, sīve ūsus arātrī
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | bidēns | bidentēs | bidentia | ||
Genitive | bidentis | bidentium | |||
Dative | bidentī | bidentibus | |||
Accusative | bidentem | bidēns | bidentēs | bidentia | |
Ablative | bidentī | bidentibus | |||
Vocative | bidēns | bidentēs | bidentia |
Derived terms
- bidental
Descendants
- Translingual: Bidens
- English: bident
References
- “bidens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “bidens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- bidens 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)
- bidens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “bidens”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “bidens”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin