Bipontum

Bipontum (German: Zweibrücken) is the neo-Latin name of the city of Zweibrücken in Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany , which was used in neo-Latin texts mainly from the 16th to the 19th century.

The adjective Bipontinus, ~ a, ~ um (German: der, die, das Zweibrückisch, indefinite: ein, ein, ein Zweibrückisch (r), also: der, die, ein, ein Zweibrücker (in)) becomes - the rules of according to the Latin language - followed by the noun and inflected with it. In neo-Latin texts, the beginnings of sentences are capitalized, nouns are capitalized, names and adjectives derived from names are capitalized; so one writes editiones Bipontinae etc.

See also

• Bibliotheca Bipontina , library in Zweibrücken
• Bipontina 650, the Zweibrückische, a rose cultivation by Richard Huber AG from 2002 for the 650th anniversary of the city
• Carl Heinrich Schultz called Bipontinus, a botanist from Zweibrücken
• Editiones Bipontinae , Zweibrücker book editions
• Gymnasium Bipontinum , Zweibrücker Gymnasium
• Origines Bipontinae, Zweibrücker origins, title of a historical treatise by Georg Christian Crollius
• Societas Bipontina , Zweibrücker publishing company
• Typographia societatis Bipontinae , printing company of the Zweibrücker Verlagsgesellschaft