biga

Borrowed from Latin bīga.

biga (plural bigas or bigae)

1. (historical) A Roman racing chariot drawn by two horses abreast.

• quadriga

• Baig, bagi, gabi

biga ?

1. calf

biga

1. two

Uncertain; probably from Latin bīga (“tree-trunk”). Cognate with Portuguese viga, Spanish viga, Occitan biga.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.ɡə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -iɡa

biga f (plural bigues)

1. beam, as in a large piece of wood or metal serving a structural role in a building

• “biga” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “biga” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

biga

1. semen
2. precum
3. lust; a feeling of strong desire, especially such a feeling driven by sexual arousal

biga

1. to be in heat
2. to be randy; to feel horny
3. to lust

From Latin bīga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbi.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -iɡa
• Hyphenation: bì‧ga

biga f (plural bighe)

1. (historical) chariot (two-wheeled)
2. (baking) pre-ferment sponge, similar to poolish (bread starter)
   • 2018, Piergiorgio Giorilli, Il grande libro del pane, Kindle edition, Milan: Gribaudo, →ISBN:

     Gli impasti a base di biga hanno particolari proprietà viscoso-elastiche e risultano particolarmente lisci ed estensibili. […] Infatti spesso per realizzare le ricette, come pasta dura o pane pugliese, vengono utilizzate tutte e due, sia biga sia pasta di riporto, in modo da sfruttare le peculiarità di ambedue le paste.

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• bigotta

bi- +‎ iuga

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbiː.ɡa/, [ˈbiːɡä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.ɡa/, [ˈbiːɡä]

bīga f (genitive bīgae); first declension

1. chariot (two-wheeled)
2. (in the plural) pair of horses

Exclusively used in the plural in pre-Augustan Latin. Seneca and Pliny were the first writers to use it in the singular.

First-declension noun.

• bīgātus

• biiugus

• “biga”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• biga 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)
• “biga”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “biga”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• pīga

Related to Old Norse bingr (“heap”) (English bing), from a Proto-Germanic derivative of Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick”), see also Sanskrit बहुल (bahula, “abundant”).[1]

bīga f

1. pile, heap

• Middle High German: bīge
  • Alemannic German: Biigi
  • German: Beige
• → Italian: bica

Borrowed from Latin bīga. First attested in the first half of the 19th century.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈbi.ɡa/

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• Rhymes: -iɡa
• Syllabification: bi‧ga

biga f

1. (Ancient Rome) biga

• biga in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• biga in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Latin biga.

biga f (plural bigas)

1. chariot (type of vehicle)

• IPA^(key): [ˈbiɡa]

biga f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of bigă

Probably from Latin bīga (“tree-trunk”)

biga

1. (Campidanese) beam