The corpus record — Latin

bipedalis

bipedalis · adj

two feet long

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Where it lives

Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
De Bello Civili 1 · 0.31/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

bĭpĕdālis — Lewis & Short

bĭpĕdālis, e, adj.id.,

I two feet long, broad, or thick (class. in prose and poetry): fenestrae, Cato, R. R. 14, 2: trabes, two feet thick, Caes. B. G. 4, 17: materia, id. B. C. 2, 10: sol huic (Epicuro) bipedalis fortasse videtur, * Cic. Fin. 1, 6, 20: adulescentulus bipedali minor, * Suet. Aug. 43: tegulae, Vitr. 7, 1 fin.: modulus, Hor. S. 2, 3, 309: hiatus, Plin. 16, 12, 23, § 57: latitudo, Col. 8, 3, 7.—

II Subst.: bĭpĕdāle, is, n., a tile or flag-stone two feet long, Inscr. Fabr. p. 500, 39.

In the wild

bipedali Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.15.5
bipedali Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.12.p2
bipedali Suetonius, Divus Augustus 43.3
bipedali Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.20.p4
bipedali Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 2.10.1
bipedali Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 25.2.p6

6 of 7 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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