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Bibio

BIB'IO

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Noun.

A name of the wine fly, a small insect found in empty wine casks.

Definition 2025

bibio

bibio

Latin

Noun

bibiō f ‎(genitive bibiōnis); third declension

A small insect generated in wine.

Inflection

Third declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	bibiō	bibiōnēs
genitive	bibiōnis	bibiōnum
dative	bibiōnī	bibiōnibus
accusative	bibiōnem	bibiōnēs
ablative	bibiōne	bibiōnibus
vocative	bibiō	bibiōnēs

Related terms

Descendants

French: bibion

References

bibio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “bibio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.