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biped
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin bipēs, bipedis. Alternatively analyzable as bi- + -ped.
Pronunciation
Noun
biped (plural bipeds)
- An animal, being, or construction that goes about on two feet (or two legs).
- 1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 235:
- This knave, […] shoes horses better than e'er a man betwixt us and Iceland; and so he gives up his practice on the bipeds, the two-legged and unfledged species, called mankind, and betakes him entirely to shoeing of horses.
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 89:
- He was badgered in that witness-box for an hour. By a distracting repetition of cross-examination he was forced to confess that he had seen and spoken to a human biped in broad daylight, yet could not recollect one singularity to distinguish this phantom from the flat mass of humanity.
- 2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 138:
- Luján, or, rather, the biped which used to be Luján, walks right up to him. He is a little shorter than Wheeler, but much heavier-set. Rooted to the spot, not thinking clearly, Wheeler holds his violin up, as if this will shield him. The conductor takes the instrument from his unresisting hands and breaks its neck underfoot, perfunctorily, as if crushing a box for recycling.
Derived terms
Translations
a two-footed (or two-legged) animal
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Indonesian
Etymology
Internationalism, borrowed from English biped, from Latin bipēs, bipedis.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈbipɛd/ [ˈbi.pɛt̪̚]
- Rhymes: -ipɛd
- Syllabification: bi‧ped
Noun
Adjective
bipèd (comparative lebih biped, superlative paling biped)
Related terms
- bipedal
- bipedalisme
Further reading
- “biped”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
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Romanian
Etymology
Adjective
biped m or n (feminine singular bipedă, masculine plural bipezi, feminine/neuter plural bipede)
Declension
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