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From bi- + -sonus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbɪ.sɔ.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbiː.s̬o.nus]

bisonus (feminine bisona, neuter bisonum); first/second-declension adjective (probably hapax legomenon)

1. sounding twice
   • c. 400 CE, Servius Honoratus, Commentary on the Aeneid 9.615:

     Biforem dat tībia cantum: bisonum, imparem.

     The pipe makes for a two-bored song: that is, sounding twice, unequal.

First/second-declension adjective.

• “bisonus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “bisonus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “bisonus” in volume 2, column 2015, line 35 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present