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bis

Adverbium CEFR C2
[ˈbɪs]

Definitiones

twice, two times, on two occasions, in two ways

not-comparable

Aequivalentia

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Exempla

“Me torret face mutua / Thurini Calais filius Ornyti, / pro quo bis patiar mori, / si parcent puero fata superstiti.”

I love my own fond lover, / Young Calais, son of Thurian Ornytus: / For him I'd die twice over, / Would Fate but spare the sweet survivor thus.

““… et iam / bis medium amplexī, bis collō squāmea circum / terga datī ….” “… and soon, twice [the serpents] had encircled [Laocoön’s] body, twice around [his] neck with [their] scaly backs ….” – Aeneas”
“falli bis”

to be deceived twice

“Familia mea bis in hebdomade ad ecclesiam it.”

My family goes to the church twice a week.

Gradus CEFR

C2
Peritia
Hoc verbum pars est vocabularii CEFR C2 — gradus peritia.
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