The corpus record — Latin

bipatens

bipatens · adj

opening in two ways

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Where it lives

Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Aeneid 2 · 0.32/10k

What it meant

bĭpătens — Lewis & Short

bĭpătens, entis, adj.bis-pateo,

I opening in two ways, open in two directions (acc. to Serv. ad Verg. A. 10, 5, used by Enn.; cf. Ann. v. 62 Vahl.; but only two exs. in Verg. are preserved): portis alii bipatentibus assunt, i.e. portis duarum valvarum, Verg. A. 2, 330 Wagn.—Of the doors of the dwellings of the gods: considunt tectis bipatentibus, Verg. A. 10, 5 (est autem sermo Ennianus tractus ab ostiis, quae ex utrāque parte aperiuntur, Serv.).

In the wild

bipatens Ausonius, Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 7.3
bipatentibus Vergil, Aeneid 10.5
bipatentibus Vergil, Aeneid 2.330

Where it came from

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