bipalium

See also: Bipalium

Latin

Etymology

bi- +‎ pāla (“shovel, mattock”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /biˈpaː.li.um/, [bɪˈpäːlʲiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /biˈpa.li.um/, [biˈpäːlium]

Noun

bipālium n (genitive bipāliī or bipālī); second declension

1. a double mattock

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	bipālium	bipālia
Genitive	bipāliī bipālī1	bipāliōrum
Dative	bipāliō	bipāliīs
Accusative	bipālium	bipālia
Ablative	bipāliō	bipāliīs
Vocative	bipālium	bipālia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• “bipalium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bipalium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.