biped

English

Striped biped

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bipēs, bipedis. Alternatively analyzable as bi- +‎ -ped.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪpɛd/

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Noun

biped (plural bipeds)

1. An animal, being or construction that goes about on two feet (or two legs).
   • 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.

Derived terms

• bipedal
• featherless biped

Translations

a two-footed (or two-legged) animal

• Armenian: երկոտանի (hy) (erkotani)
• Belarusian: двухно́гі (dvuxnóhi)
• Czech: dvojnohý
• Dutch: tweevoeter (nl) m
• Esperanto: dupiedulo
• Finnish: kaksijalkainen eläin
• French: bipède (fr)
• German: Zweifüßer m, Zweifüßerin f, Zweifüßler m, Zweifüßlerin, Zweibeiner (de) m, Zweibeinerin f, Bipede m
• Hungarian: kétlábú (hu)
• Polish: dwunożny (pl)
• Russian: двуно́гий (ru) (dvunógij)
• Spanish: bípedo (es) m
• Swedish: tvåfoting c
• Ukrainian: двоно́гий (dvonóhyj)
• Volapük: (♂♀) telfutaf, (♂) hitelfutaf, (♀) jitelfutaf, (♂♀) tellögaf, (♂) hitellögaf, (♀) jitellögaf

See also

• bipod
• quadruped

Anagrams

• bedip

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French bipède, from Latin bipes.

Adjective

biped m or n (feminine singular bipedă, masculine plural bipezi, feminine and neuter plural bipede)

1. biped

Declension

Declension of biped

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	biped		bipedă	bipezi	bipede
	definite	bipedul		bipeda	bipezii	bipedele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	biped		bipede	bipezi	bipede
	definite	bipedului		bipedei	bipezilor	bipedelor