English

Noun

bivium

1. (zoology) One side of an echinoderm, including a pair of ambulacra, in distinction from the opposite side (trivium), which includes three ambulacra.

Latin

Etymology

Substantive from bivius ‎(“having two ways”), which is derived from via ‎(“path, road”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.wi.um/, [ˈbɪ.wi.ũ]

Noun

bivium n ‎(genitive biviī); second declension

1. A place with or where two ways meet; fork in the road, crossroad.
2. A pair of alternative means or methods.

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• Italian: bivio

References

• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “bivium”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • Hercules at the cross-roads, between virtue and vice: Hercules in trivio, in bivio, in compitis
    
• bivium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers