bipes

== French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /bip/ Homophones: bipe, bipent === Verb === bipes second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of biper == Latin == === Etymology === From bi- +‎ pēs. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbɪ.peːs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbiː.pes] === 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 ==== → Catalan: bípede → English: biped → French: bipède → Romanian: biped → Portuguese: bípede === 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, 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 === IPA(key): /ˈbɪpɛs/ === Verb === bipes soft mutation of pipes === Mutation ===