medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Latham's Revised Medieval Latin Word-List gives "biga" as a cart (c.
> 1194, 1510) and crosslists to "bica," a "bike," i.e. nest or swarm of
> bees (1250, 1277 or "biga" 1397), locating the word to N.W. England.
> The OED refines "bike" to wild bees or hornets.
"Biga" is not in Stelton's Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin: that goes
from "bifaciatus" (two-faced) to "bigamia" (bigamy)!
John Briggs
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