biremis
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom bi- + rēmus (“oar”) + -is.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /biˈreː.mis/, [bɪˈreːmɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /biˈre.mis/, [biˈrɛːmis]
Adjective
editbirēmis (neuter birēme); third-declension two-termination adjective
- having two banks of oars
Declension
editThird-declension two-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | birēmis | birēme | birēmēs | birēmia | |
Genitive | birēmis | birēmium | |||
Dative | birēmī | birēmibus | |||
Accusative | birēmem | birēme | birēmēs birēmīs |
birēmia | |
Ablative | birēmī | birēmibus | |||
Vocative | birēmis | birēme | birēmēs | birēmia |
Noun
editbirēmis f (genitive birēmis); third declension
- bireme: a ship with two banks of oars
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.180-183:
- Aenēās scopulum intereā cōnscendit, et omnem
prōspectum lātē pelagō petit, Anthea sī quem
iactātum ventō videat Phrygiāsque birēmīs,
aut Capyn, aut celsīs in puppibus arma Caīcī.- Meanwhile, Aeneas scales a cliff, and searches the whole panorama across the wide open sea, if perhaps he could see anything of Antheus, storm-tossed by wind, and the Phrygian biremes, or [maybe] Capys, or the shields of Caicus upon [his] lofty stern.
- Aenēās scopulum intereā cōnscendit, et omnem
Declension
editThird-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or -ī).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | birēmis | birēmēs |
Genitive | birēmis | birēmium |
Dative | birēmī | birēmibus |
Accusative | birēmem | birēmēs birēmīs |
Ablative | birēme birēmī |
birēmibus |
Vocative | birēmis | birēmēs |
Descendants
edit- → English: bireme (learned)
- → French: birème (learned)
- → German: Bireme (learned)
- → Italian: bireme (learned)
Further reading
edit- “biremis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “biremis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- biremis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “biremis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “biremis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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