bisextilis
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /biˈsek.sti.lis/, [bɪˈs̠ɛks̠t̪ɪlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /biˈsek.sti.lis/, [biˈs̬ɛkst̪ilis]
Adjective
bisextilis (neuter bisextile); third-declension two-termination adjective
- (relational) leap year, bisextile
- 1553, Luminarum atque Planetarum motuum Tabulae octogina quinque, omnium ex his quae Alphonsum sequuntur quam faciles [1]
- Anni videlicet solares ex diebus 365 et quarta partes unius diei: quorum tres primi solum ex 365 diebus pro quolibet numerantur, qui non bissextiles dicuntur: quartus vero, ex 366 diebus componitur, et bissextilis nuncupatur.
- Every solar year is 365 and a quarter days: of these, each of the first three number 365 days, and they are called non-bissextiles, while the fourth, composed of 366 days, is called bissextile.
- Anni videlicet solares ex diebus 365 et quarta partes unius diei: quorum tres primi solum ex 365 diebus pro quolibet numerantur, qui non bissextiles dicuntur: quartus vero, ex 366 diebus componitur, et bissextilis nuncupatur.
- 1553, Luminarum atque Planetarum motuum Tabulae octogina quinque, omnium ex his quae Alphonsum sequuntur quam faciles [1]
- intercalary
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | bisextilis | bisextile | bisextilēs | bisextilia | |
Genitive | bisextilis | bisextilium | |||
Dative | bisextilī | bisextilibus | |||
Accusative | bisextilem | bisextile | bisextilēs bisextilīs |
bisextilia | |
Ablative | bisextilī | bisextilibus | |||
Vocative | bisextilis | bisextile | bisextilēs | bisextilia |
Related terms
References
- “bisextilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- bisextilis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- bisextilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.