bisonus

== Latin == === Etymology === From bi- +‎ -sonus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbɪ.sɔ.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbiː.s̬o.nus] === Adjective === bisonus (feminine bisona, neuter bisonum); first/second-declension adjective (probably hapax legomenon) sounding twice c. 400 CE, Servius Honoratus, Commentary on the Aeneid 9.615: Biforem dat tībia cantum: bisonum, imparem. The pipe makes for a two-bored song: that is, sounding twice, unequal. ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. === References === “bisonus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “bisonus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “bisonus” in volume 2, column 2015, line 35 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present