different between echinoderm vs bivium

English

Etymology

From French échinoderme, corresponding to echino- +? -derm, after plural of 18th-century Latin echinoderma.

Noun

echinoderm (plural echinoderms)

1. An animal of the phylum Echinodermata, comprising radially symmetric, spiny-skinned marine animals including seastars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, crinoids, and sand dollars. [from 19th c.]

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French échinoderme.

Noun

echinoderm n (plural echinoderme)

1. echinoderm

Declension

English

Etymology

Latin bivium (“a place with two ways”).

Noun

bivium (plural bivia)

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

Related terms

• bivious

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?bi.u?i.um/, [?b?u?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?bi.vi.um/, [?bi?vium]

Noun

bivium n (genitive bivi? or biv?); second declension

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

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Italian: bivio

References

• bivium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• bivium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers