bivium
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin bivium (“a place with two ways”).
Noun edit
bivium (plural bivia)
- (zoology) One side of an echinoderm, including a pair of ambulacra, in distinction from the opposite side (trivium), which includes three ambulacra.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bivium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Substantive from bivius (“having two ways”), which is derived from via (“path, road”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbi.u̯i.um/, [ˈbiu̯iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbi.vi.um/, [ˈbiːvium]
Noun edit
bivium n (genitive biviī or bivī); second declension
- A place with or where two ways meet; fork in the road, crossroad.
- A pair of alternative means or methods.
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | bivium | bivia |
| Genitive | biviī bivī1 |
biviōrum |
| Dative | biviō | biviīs |
| Accusative | bivium | bivia |
| Ablative | biviō | biviīs |
| Vocative | bivium | bivia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants edit
- Italian: bivio
References edit
- bivium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- Hercules at the cross-roads, between virtue and vice: Hercules in trivio, in bivio, in compitis
- Hercules at the cross-roads, between virtue and vice: Hercules in trivio, in bivio, in compitis
- “bivium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers