biremis

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From bi- +‎ rēmus (oar) +‎ -is.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

birēmis (neuter birēme); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. having two banks of oars

Declension[edit]

Third-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[edit]

birēmis f (genitive birēmis); third declension

  1. 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.

Declension[edit]

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or ).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative birēmis birēmēs
Genitive birēmis birēmium
Dative birēmī birēmibus
Accusative birēmem birēmēs
birēmīs
Ablative birēme
birēmī
birēmibus
Vocative birēmis birēmēs

References[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