geminus

== Latin == === Etymology === Presumably from Proto-Italic *yemanos, from Proto-Indo-European *yemH- (“twin”), in view of Proto-Celtic *yemonos (Old Irish emon (“twin”)). If this is true, the g- must have been analogically introduced from gignō (“to give birth to”), genus (“offspring”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɡɛ.mɪ.nʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈd͡ʒɛː.mi.nus] === Adjective === geminus (feminine gemina, neuter geminum); first/second-declension adjective (literal) twinborn, twin (transferred sense) double, paired, two, twofold, both, half-and-half Synonyms: duplex, duo resembling, similar, like ==== Inflection ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “geminus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “geminus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "geminus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “geminus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “geminus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “geminus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray