geminous

English

Etymology

Latin geminus.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛmɪnəs

Adjective

geminous (not comparable)

  1. double; appearing or growing in pairs
    • 1672, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica (6th edition, book 3, chapter 15)
      And this the practice of Christians hath acknowledged, who have baptized these geminous births.
    • 1861 March, “Critical Notices of Works on India and the East”, in Calcutta Review, volume 36, page v:
      The reader will also observe that in the example just cited 'justice' is rendered by 'equality and justice;' on the same page he will find carelessness and inadvertency' where the original has only neglect; and so he will find throughout the book such geminous and even tergeminous renderings to the number of at least two hundred.
    geminous teeth

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