bidens

See also: Bidens

Latin

Etymology

bi- +‎ dens

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.dens/, [ˈbɪd̪ẽːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.dens/, [ˈbiːd̪ens]

Adjective

bidēns (genitive bidentis); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. two-pronged
2. having two blades or teeth
3. (transferred) a heavy hoe or mattock with two iron teeth
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.693–694:

     Ille suam peragēbat humum, sīve ūsus arātrī
     seu curvae falcis sīve bidentis erat.

     He was working the farm himself, whether there was need of a plow
     or a curved sickle or a two-pronged [hoe].

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	bidēns			bidentēs	bidentia
Genitive	bidentis			bidentium
Dative	bidentī			bidentibus
Accusative	bidentem	bidēns		bidentēs	bidentia
Ablative	bidentī			bidentibus
Vocative	bidēns			bidentēs	bidentia

Derived terms

• bidental

Descendants

• Translingual: Bidens
• English: bident

References

• “bidens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bidens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bidens in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• bidens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “bidens”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “bidens”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin