biremis

From bi- +‎ rēmus (“oar”) +‎ -is.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /biˈreː.mis/, [bɪˈreːmɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /biˈre.mis/, [biˈrɛːmis]

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

1. having two banks of oars

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

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.

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

• “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