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Adjective [Latin]

IPA: [biˈɛn.nɪs] [Classical-Latin], [biˈɛn.nis] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From bi- (“two”) + annus (“year”) + -is (suffix forming compound adjectives). Etymology templates: {{af|la|bi-|annus|-is|pos3=suffix forming compound adjectives|t1=two|t2=year}} bi- (“two”) + annus (“year”) + -is (suffix forming compound adjectives) Head templates: {{la-adj|biennis}} biennis (neuter bienne); third-declension two-termination adjective, {{tlb|la|unattested outside of <<glosses>>}} (unattested outside of glosses) Inflection templates: {{la-adecl|biennis}} Forms: bienne [neuter], no-table-tags [table-tags], biennis [feminine, masculine, nominative, singular], bienne [neuter, nominative, singular], biennēs [feminine, masculine, nominative, plural], biennia [neuter, nominative, plural], biennis [feminine, genitive, masculine, neuter, singular], biennium [feminine, genitive, masculine, neuter, plural], biennī [dative, feminine, masculine, neuter, singular], biennibus [dative, feminine, masculine, neuter, plural], biennem [accusative, feminine, masculine, singular], bienne [accusative, neuter, singular], biennīs [accusative, feminine, masculine, plural], biennēs [accusative, feminine, masculine, plural], biennia [accusative, neuter, plural], biennī [ablative, feminine, masculine, neuter, singular], biennibus [ablative, feminine, masculine, neuter, plural], biennis [feminine, masculine, singular, vocative], bienne [neuter, singular, vocative], biennēs [feminine, masculine, plural, vocative], biennia [neuter, plural, vocative]
  1. two-year-old Tags: declension-3, two-termination Synonyms: bīmus
    Sense id: en-biennis-la-adj-kU3tSpBT Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin terms prefixed with bi- Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 32 68 Disambiguation of Latin terms prefixed with bi-: 32 68
  2. of two years, lasting two years Tags: declension-3, two-termination Synonyms: biennālis
    Sense id: en-biennis-la-adj-StRktGqR Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin links with manual fragments, Latin terms prefixed with bi-, Latin terms suffixed with -is, Latin third declension adjectives of two terminations, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Age, Time, Two Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 32 68 Disambiguation of Latin links with manual fragments: 0 100 Disambiguation of Latin terms prefixed with bi-: 32 68 Disambiguation of Latin terms suffixed with -is: 0 100 Disambiguation of Latin third declension adjectives of two terminations: 17 83 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 0 100 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 0 100 Disambiguation of Age: 0 100 Disambiguation of Time: 0 100 Disambiguation of Two: 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: biennālis, bienniperennāns, biennium Derived forms (disputed): bidēns
Disambiguation of 'disputed': 0 0 Coordinate_terms: triennis, quadriennis, quīnquennis, sexennis, septuennis, octennis, novennis, decennis, ūndecennis, duodecennis, trēdecennis, quattuordecennis, quīndecennis, sēdecennis, septendecennis, duodēvīcennis, undēvīcennis, vīcennis, trīcennis, quadrāgennis, quīnquāgennis, sexāgennis, septuāgennis, octōgennis, nōnāgennis, centennis, ducentennis, trecentennis, quadringentennis, quīngentennis, sescentennis, septingentennis, octingentennis, nōngentennis, mīllennis

Inflected forms

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          "_dis": "32 68",
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          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae XVI.VI.XII-XV",
          "text": "P. autem Nigidius in libro, quem de extis composuit, \"bidentes\" appellari ait non oves solas, sed omnes bimas hostias, neque tamen dixit apertius, cur bidentes; sed, quod ultro existumabamus, id scriptum invenimus in commentariis quibusdam ad ius pontificum pertinentibus \"bidentes\" primo dictas, \"d\" littera inmissa, quasi biennes, tum longo usu loquendi corruptam vocem esse et ex bidennibus bidentes factum, quoniam id videbatur esse dictu facilius leniusque. Hyginus tamen Iulius, qui ius pontificum non videtur ignorasse, in quarto librorum, quos de Vergilio fecit, \"bidentes\" appellari scripsit hostias, quae per aetatem duos dentes altiores haberent. Verba illius ipsa posui: \"Quae \"bidens\" est\" inquit \"hostia, oportet habeat dentes octo, sed ex his duo ceteris altiores, per quos appareat ex minore aetate in maiorem transcendisse\". Haec Hygini opinio an vera sit, non argumentis, sed oculis iudicari potest.",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)"
        },
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          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "Servius Honoratus, Commentarii in Vergilii Aeneidem IV.57",
          "text": "LECTAS BIDENTES: non vacat 'lectas'; moris enim fuerat ut ad sacrificia eligerentur oves, quibus nihil deesset, ut in sexto “nunc grege de intacto septem mactare iuvencos” . 'bidentes' autem dictae sunt quasi biennes, quia neque minores, neque maiores licebat hostias dare. sunt etiam in ovibus duo eminentiores dentes inter octo, qui non nisi circa bimatum apparent: nec in omnibus, sed in his quae sunt aptae sacris, inveniuntur.",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "c. 431 CE, Macrobius, Saturnalia 6.9",
          "text": "Sed in commentariis ad ius pontificium pertinentibus legi bidennes [oves] primo dictas, d littera ex superfluo, ut saepe adsolet, interiecta. Sic pro reire redire dicitur, et pro reamare redamare, et redarguere, non rearguere. Ad hiatum enim duarum vocalium procurandum interponi solet d littera. Ergo bidennes primum dictae sunt quasi biennes, et longo usu loquendi corrupta est vox ex bidennibus in bidentes. Hyginus tamen, qui ius pontificium non ignoravit, in quinto librorum quos de Virgilio fecit bidentes appellari scripsit hostias quae per aetatem duos dentes altiores haberent, per quos ex minore in maiorem transcendisse constaret aetatem.",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)"
        }
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          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)"
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    {
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    {
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      "sense": "disputed",
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      "form": "biennia",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "biennis",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "biennium",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "biennī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "biennibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "biennem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bienne",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "biennīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "biennēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "biennia",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "biennī",
      "source": "declension",
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        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "biennibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "biennis",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bienne",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "biennēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "biennia",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "biennis"
      },
      "expansion": "biennis (neuter bienne); third-declension two-termination adjective",
      "name": "la-adj"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "unattested outside of <<glosses>>"
      },
      "expansion": "(unattested outside of glosses)",
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    }
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      "args": {
        "1": "biennis"
      },
      "name": "la-adecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "adj",
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    {
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        "Latin terms with quotations",
        "Requests for translations of Latin quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae XVI.VI.XII-XV",
          "text": "P. autem Nigidius in libro, quem de extis composuit, \"bidentes\" appellari ait non oves solas, sed omnes bimas hostias, neque tamen dixit apertius, cur bidentes; sed, quod ultro existumabamus, id scriptum invenimus in commentariis quibusdam ad ius pontificum pertinentibus \"bidentes\" primo dictas, \"d\" littera inmissa, quasi biennes, tum longo usu loquendi corruptam vocem esse et ex bidennibus bidentes factum, quoniam id videbatur esse dictu facilius leniusque. Hyginus tamen Iulius, qui ius pontificum non videtur ignorasse, in quarto librorum, quos de Vergilio fecit, \"bidentes\" appellari scripsit hostias, quae per aetatem duos dentes altiores haberent. Verba illius ipsa posui: \"Quae \"bidens\" est\" inquit \"hostia, oportet habeat dentes octo, sed ex his duo ceteris altiores, per quos appareat ex minore aetate in maiorem transcendisse\". Haec Hygini opinio an vera sit, non argumentis, sed oculis iudicari potest.",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "Servius Honoratus, Commentarii in Vergilii Aeneidem IV.57",
          "text": "LECTAS BIDENTES: non vacat 'lectas'; moris enim fuerat ut ad sacrificia eligerentur oves, quibus nihil deesset, ut in sexto “nunc grege de intacto septem mactare iuvencos” . 'bidentes' autem dictae sunt quasi biennes, quia neque minores, neque maiores licebat hostias dare. sunt etiam in ovibus duo eminentiores dentes inter octo, qui non nisi circa bimatum apparent: nec in omnibus, sed in his quae sunt aptae sacris, inveniuntur.",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)"
        },
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "c. 431 CE, Macrobius, Saturnalia 6.9",
          "text": "Sed in commentariis ad ius pontificium pertinentibus legi bidennes [oves] primo dictas, d littera ex superfluo, ut saepe adsolet, interiecta. Sic pro reire redire dicitur, et pro reamare redamare, et redarguere, non rearguere. Ad hiatum enim duarum vocalium procurandum interponi solet d littera. Ergo bidennes primum dictae sunt quasi biennes, et longo usu loquendi corrupta est vox ex bidennibus in bidentes. Hyginus tamen, qui ius pontificium non ignoravit, in quinto librorum quos de Virgilio fecit bidentes appellari scripsit hostias quae per aetatem duos dentes altiores haberent, per quos ex minore in maiorem transcendisse constaret aetatem.",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "two-year-old"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "two-year-old",
          "two-year-old"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bīmus"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "two-termination"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations",
        "Requests for translations of Latin quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
          "ref": "Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus, Ars grammatica Littera B",
          "text": "Bimus, quasi bihiemis, et inde bimatus derivatur, a b incipit; et biennis quasi duorum annorum.",
          "translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "of two years, lasting two years"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "year",
          "year"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "biennālis"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3",
        "two-termination"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[biˈɛn.nɪs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[biˈɛn.nis]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Aulus Gellius"
  ],
  "word": "biennis"
}

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