The corpus record — Latin

bipes

two-footed

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Where it lives

Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 1 · 0.41/10k
de Natura Deorum 1 · 0.28/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

1. bipes — de Vaan

bipes 'two-footed' (Naev.), tripedaneus 'three feet long' (Cato+), quadmpes 'four-legged; domestic animal' (Lex ΧΠ+), quadrupedus 'of galloping' (P1.+), — [de Vaan, s.v. bipes, p. 476]

2. bĭpēs — Lewis & Short

bĭpēs (˘˘,

Aus. Idyll. 11, 39;

I neutr. plur. bipedia, Aug. Mor. Manich. 9), pĕdis, adj. bis-pes, two-footed (mostly poet. or in post-Aug. prose): equi, Verg. G. 4, 389: mensa, Mart. 12, 32, 11: Aegyptii mures bipedes ambulant, on two feet, Plin. 10, 65, 85, § 187: alium bipedem sibi quaerit asellum, two legged ass, Juv. 9, 92: animal genus, mortale species, terrenum vel bipes differens, Quint. 5, 10, 61.—

II Subst., mostly contemptuously, of men: hoc ministro omnium non bipedum solum sed etiam quadripedum impurissimo, Cic. Dom. 18, 48: Regulus omnium bipedum nequissimus, as great a rogue as walks on two legs, Modest. ap. Plin. Ep. 1, 5, 14; Cic. Dom. 18, 48; Lampr. Alex. Sev. 9; cf.: bipes asellus, of a simple man, Juv. 9, 92: replevit eam (terram) bipedibus et quadrupedibus. Vulg. Baruch. 3, 32.

3. bipes — Walde–Hofmann

bipes, -edis „zweifüßig* (seit Naev.): vgl. ai. defpat dvipdt, gr. b(rouc, ags. tteifete ds., u. du-pursus „bipedibus“. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. bipes, p. 138]

In the wild

bipes Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae 5.P4
bipes Ausonius, Griphus Ternarii numeri 1.39
bipes Martial, Epigrammata 12.32.11
bipes Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 5.10.61
bipes Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.43.p1
bipes Cicero, de Natura Deorum 1.95.p2

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. bipes (scan p. 476; entry #1316).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. bipes (scan p. 138; entry #409).

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