δίδυμος

Reduplication from δύο (dúo, “two”), with a suffix -μο; compare ἀμφίδυμος (amphídumos, “double”). Analogical formations like τρίδυμος (trídumos) show that this word was connected with δίς (dís, “twice”), at least at a later date.

δῐ́δῠμος • (dídumos) m (feminine δῐδῠ́μη, neuter δῐ́δῠμον); first/second declension

1. double, twofold
2. twin

δῐ́δῠμος • (dídumos) m (genitive δῐδῠ́μου); second declension

1. (in the plural) twins
2. (astronomy) Gemini
3. (anatomy, in the plural) testicles

   Synonym: ὄρχῐς (órkhis)

4. (anatomy, in the plural) ovaries

• → English: didymus
• Greek: δίδυμος (dídymos)

• “δίδυμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “δίδυμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “δίδυμος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• δίδυμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• δίδυμος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• δίδυμος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

δίδυμος • (dídymos) m (feminine δίδυμη, neuter δίδυμο)

1. twin, twinned, being one of a pair of twins

   δίδυμα αδέλφια

   twin brothers

2. (figuratively) matching exactly

   δίδυμα πυροβόλα, δίδυμοι πύργοι

   twin cannon, twin towers

δίδυμος • (dídymos) m or f (plural δίδυμοι)

1. twin (either of two people who shared the same uterus, or of two similar or closely related objects)

• Δίδυμοι (Dídymoi)
• δίδυμο (dídymo)
• δίδυμοι (dídymoi)
• δίδυμες (dídymes)

• didymous