bivium

== English == === Etymology === From Latin bivium (“a place with two ways”). === Noun === bivium (plural bivia) (zoology) One side of an echinoderm, including a pair of ambulacra, in distinction from the opposite side (trivium), which includes three ambulacra. ==== Derived terms ==== bivial ==== Related terms ==== bivious == Latin == === Etymology === The noun is a neuter substantive from bivius (“having two approaches”), from bi- (“two”) +‎ via (“road; way”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈbɪ.wi.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈbiː.vi.um] === Adjective === bivium inflection of bivius: nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular accusative masculine singular === Noun === bivium m accusative singular of bivius === Noun === bivium n (genitive biviī or bivī); second declension a crossroad, fork in the road or place where two ways meet a pair of alternative means or methods ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Italian: bivio === References === “bivium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “bivium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers