bisonus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbi.so.nus/, [ˈbɪs̠ɔnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbi.so.nus/, [ˈbiːs̬onus]
Adjective edit
bisonus (feminine bisona, neuter bisonum); first/second-declension adjective (probably hapax)
- 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.
- Biforem dat tībia cantum: bisonum, imparem.
- c. 400 CE, Servius Honoratus, Commentary on the Aeneid 9.615:
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | bisonus | bisona | bisonum | bisonī | bisonae | bisona | |
| Genitive | bisonī | bisonae | bisonī | bisonōrum | bisonārum | bisonōrum | |
| Dative | bisonō | bisonō | bisonīs | ||||
| Accusative | bisonum | bisonam | bisonum | bisonōs | bisonās | bisona | |
| Ablative | bisonō | bisonā | bisonō | bisonīs | |||
| Vocative | bisone | bisona | bisonum | bisonī | bisonae | bisona | |
References edit
- “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