bimus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Possible contraction of *bihiemus, from bis + hiems, or inherited from Proto-Indo-European *dwiǵʰimos; compare Proto-Germanic *twigimaz (“two years old”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbiː.mus/, [ˈbiːmʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbi.mus/, [ˈbiːmus]
Adjective edit
bīmus (feminine bīma, neuter bīmum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | bīmus | bīma | bīmum | bīmī | bīmae | bīma | |
| Genitive | bīmī | bīmae | bīmī | bīmōrum | bīmārum | bīmōrum | |
| Dative | bīmō | bīmō | bīmīs | ||||
| Accusative | bīmum | bīmam | bīmum | bīmōs | bīmās | bīma | |
| Ablative | bīmō | bīmā | bīmō | bīmīs | |||
| Vocative | bīme | bīma | bīmum | bīmī | bīmae | bīma | |
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Portuguese: bimo
References edit
- “bimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “bimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- bimus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.