The corpus record — Latin

biforis

biforis · adj

Having two doors

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Where it lives

Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

1. bĭfŏris — Lewis & Short

bĭfŏris, e (bĭfŏrus, a, um, adj.bis-foris.

Vitr. 4, 6 fin.),

I Having two doors or folding-doors: valvae, Ov. M. 2, 4: fenestrae, id. P. 3, 3, 5.—

II Having two openings or holes, double: via (narium), App. Dogm. Plat. 1.—Poet.: ubi assuetis biforem dat tibia cantum, Verg. A. 9, 618 (bisonum, imparem, Serv.); Aus. Cent. Nupt. 27: biforis tumultus, Stat. Th. 4, 668.

2. biforis — Walde–Hofmann

biforis, -e (-us Vitr.) „zweitürig“ (seit Ov.): vgl. b(-8upoc. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. biforis, p. 137]

In the wild

bifori Prudentius, Psychomachia 1.666
biforem Statius, Thebais 4.668
biforem Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 5.495
bifores Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.4
bifores Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 11.123
biforem Ausonius, Cento Nuptialis 2.27

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. biforis (scan p. 137; entry #401).

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