The corpus record — Latin

biceps

biceps · adj

Having two heads

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Where it lives

Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
Saturae 1 · 2.21/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 41 1 · 1.32/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 32 1 · 0.94/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 26-30 - 28 1 · 0.6/10k
Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. bĭceps — Lewis & Short

bĭceps, cĭpĭtis (old form bĭcĭpes, like ancipes for anceps, acc. to bĭcepsŏs, bĭ-căpĭtes, dike/faloi, Gloss. Philox.), adj.bis-caput.

Prisc. p. 754 P.; Varr. L. L. 5, § 50 Müll.;

I Having two heads, twoheaded (rare but class.): puella nata biceps, * Cic. Div. 1, 53, 121: puer, Liv. 41, 21, 12: porcus, id. 28, 11, 3: Janus, Ov. F. 1, 65; id. P. 4, 4, 23: serpens, Plin. 10, 62, 82, § 169: partus, Tac. A. 15, 47: gladius, with two edges, Vulg. Prov. 5, 4.—Poet., of mountains, with two summits: Parnasus, Ov. M. 2, 221; cf. id. ib. 1, 316; Luc. 5, 72; Pers. prol. 2.—

II Trop., divided into two parts: bicipitem civitatem fecit, discordiarum civilium fontem, Varr. ap. Non. p. 454, 23; Flor. 3, 17, 3: argumentum, i. e. a dilemma, App. Flor. 4, n. 18.

2. biceps — Walde–Hofmann

biceps, -itis „zweiköpfig® (seit Varro und Cic.; alat. bicipes nach Prisc., vgl. anceps, -ipes): bi- und caput, vgl. ahd. zwihoubit. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. biceps, p. 136]

In the wild

biceps Cicero, De Divinatione 1.121.p1
bicipites Tacitus, Annales 15.p48
biceps Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 41 p31
biceps Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.221
biceps Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.28.11.3
biceps Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 32 p34

6 of 20 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. biceps (scan p. 123; entry #1766).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. biceps (scan p. 136; entry #395).

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