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bigrade

adj

Etymology

From bi- + grade. Compare Japanese 二段 (nidan).

  1. derived from *gʰradʰ-✻
  2. derived from *graðus✻
  3. derived from gradus
  4. borrowed from grade
  5. prefixed as bigrade — “bi + grade”

Definitions

  1. Belonging to a certain conjugation class of verbs in Old Japanese or Classical Japanese,…

    Belonging to a certain conjugation class of verbs in Old Japanese or Classical Japanese, so called due to their use of two vowels (grades or rows on the gojūon chart).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bigrade. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA