bipes

• IPA^(key): /bip/
• Homophones: bipe, bipent

bipes

1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of biper

From bi- +‎ pēs.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.peːs/, [ˈbɪpeːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.pes/, [ˈbiːpes]

bipēs (genitive bipedis); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. two-footed, bipedal
   • Vergil, Georgicon IV, 389 (edited and translated by H. Rushton Fairclough, Virgil with an English translation I, 1916)

     Est in Carpathio Neptuni gurgite vates, | caeruleus Proteus, magnum qui piscibus aequor | et iuncto bipedum curru metitur equorum.

     In Neptune's Carpathian flood there dweels a seer, Proteus, of sea-green hue, who traverses the mighty main in his car drawn by fishes and a team of two-footed steeds.

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

• → Catalan: bípede
• → English: biped
• → French: bipède
  • → Romanian: biped
• → Portuguese: bípede

• “bipes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bipes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bipes 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)
• bipes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɪpɛs/

bipes

1. Soft mutation of pipes.