bignae
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From bi- (“two-”) + -gnus (“-born”).[1]
Adjective edit
bignae f pl
- (hapax) twin (nominative plural feminine)
- [1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 33:
- Bignae geminae dicuntur, quia bis una die natae sunt.
- Twins are called bignae, because two are born in a single day.]
References edit
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “gignō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 260–261