See also: Bipalium

Latin edit

Etymology edit

bi- +‎ pāla (shovel, mattock)

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

bipālium n (genitive bipāliī or bipālī); second declension

  1. a double mattock

Declension edit

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 edit

  • 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.