The corpus record — Latin

biformis

biformis · adj

double

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Where it lives

Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 2.88/10k
Phaedra 2 · 2.81/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Metamorphoses 5 · 0.64/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
Aeneid 2 · 0.32/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

bĭformis — Lewis & Short

bĭformis, e, adj.bis-forma,

I double or two-formed, two-shaped (poet. or in postAug. prose): proles biformis Minotaurus, Verg. A. 6, 25: Scyllae, id. ib. 6, 286; Ov. M. 8, 156: Janus, id. F. 1, 89; 5, 424: (Hermaphroditus), id. M. 4, 387: pater, i. e. Chiron, id. ib. 2, 664: Nessus, id. ib. 9, 121: Hodites, id. ib. 12, 456: monstrum, id. ib. 8, 156: a Centaur, id. Am. 2, 12, 19; Claud. in Rufin. 1, 329 (cf. biformatus): Pan, Col. 10, 427: Glaucus, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 12: Cecrops, Just. 2, 6, 7.—Trop., of a poet (as man and swan): vates, * Hor. C. 2, 20, 3: biformes hominum partus, Tac. A. 12, 64.

In the wild

biformis Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 14.29
biformis Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.156
biformes Claudian, In Rufinum 1.1.329
biformis Tacitus, Annales 12.p65
biformis Vergil, Aeneid 6.25
biformis Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.121

6 of 23 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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