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biga

See also: Biga, bigă, and bigą

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin bīga.

Noun

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biga (plural bigas or bigae)

  1. (historical) A Roman racing chariot drawn by two horses abreast.

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Basque

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biga ?

  1. calf

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biga

  1. two

Catalan

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Etymology

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Uncertain; probably from Latin bīga (“tree-trunk”). Cognate with Portuguese viga, Spanish viga, Occitan biga.

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biga f (plural bigues)

  1. beam, as in a large piece of wood or metal serving a structural role in a building

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Cebuano

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biga

  1. semen
  2. pre-ejaculate
  3. lust; a feeling of strong desire, especially such a feeling driven by sexual arousal

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biga

  1. to be in heat
  2. to be randy; to feel horny
  3. to lust

Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin bīga.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbi.ɡa/
  • Rhymes: -iɡa
  • Hyphenation: bì‧ga

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biga f (plural bighe)

  1. (historical) chariot (two-wheeled)
  2. (baking) pre-ferment sponge, similar to poolish (bread starter)
    • 2018, Piergiorgio Giorilli, Il grande libro del pane, Kindle edition, Milan: Gribaudo, →ISBN:
      Gli impasti a base di biga hanno particolari proprietà viscoso-elastiche e risultano particolarmente lisci ed estensibili. […] Infatti spesso per realizzare le ricette, come pasta dura o pane pugliese, vengono utilizzate tutte e due, sia biga sia pasta di riporto, in modo da sfruttare le peculiarità di ambedue le paste.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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Jamaican Creole

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Adjective

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biga

  1. comparative degree of big

Latin

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Etymology

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bi- +‎ iuga

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Noun

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bīga f (genitive bīgae); first declension

  1. chariot (two-wheeled)
  2. (in the plural) pair of horses

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Exclusively used in the plural in pre-Augustan Latin. Seneca and Pliny were the first writers to use it in the singular.

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative bīga bīgae
Genitive bīgae bīgārum
Dative bīgae bīgīs
Accusative bīgam bīgās
Ablative bīgā bīgīs
Vocative bīga bīgae

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Albanian: bigë
  • Aromanian: bigã
  • Catalan: biga
  • → English: biga
  • Italian: biga
  • Occitan: biga
  • → Polish: biga
  • Portuguese: biga
  • Romanian: bigă
  • Spanish: viga

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  • “biga”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • biga in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • “biga”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “biga”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Laz

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Noun

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biga

  1. Latin spelling of ბიგა (biga)

Old High German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Related to Old Norse bingr (“heap”) (English bing), from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick”), see also Sanskrit बहुल (bahula, “abundant”).[1]

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bīga f

  1. pile, heap

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  1. ^ Buck, C. D. (2008). A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages. United States: University of Chicago Press, p. 887

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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biga

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  • IPA(key): /ˈbi.ɡa/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -iɡa
  • Syllabification: bi‧ga
  • Homophone: Biga

Etymology 1

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Learned borrowing from Latin bīga. First attested in the first half of the 19th century.[1]

Noun

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biga f

  1. (Ancient Rome, historical) biga (Roman racing chariot drawn by two horses abreast)

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from German biegen. Doublet of Boh and Bug.

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biga f

  1. (printing) crease (element of the die-cutting machine used to emboss the bend line of the paper)
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Declension of biga
singular plural
nominative biga bigi
genitive bigi big
dative bidze bigom
accusative bigę bigi
instrumental bigą bigami
locative bidze bigach
vocative bigo bigi

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  1. ^ biga in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

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  • biga in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • biga in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin biga.

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  • Hyphenation: bi‧ga

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biga f (plural bigas)

  1. chariot (type of vehicle)

Romanian

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biga f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of bigă

Sardinian

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Etymology

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Probably from Latin bīga (“tree-trunk”)

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biga

  1. (Campidanese) beam

Tagalog

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Spanish viga.

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bigà or biga (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜄ)

  1. (carpentry) girder
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Etymology 2

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bigà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜄ)

  1. giant taro (Alocasia macrorrhizos)
    Synonyms: malabiga, badyang

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bigà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜄ)

  1. flat lowland
    Synonyms: lambak, libis

Etymology 4

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Possibly Chinese.

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bigà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜄ)

  1. damp or swampy ground
    Synonyms: labon, latian, tanlak, tunlak

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bigà (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜄ)

  1. root of words meaning "glibness of the tongue", such as malabiga
    Synonyms: daldal, kadaldalan
  2. root of words meaning "fault-finding habit", such as malabiga
    Synonym: pagkamapintasan
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