From A Word a Day (one of my favorite sites):
This week's theme: words with double connections.
didymous (DID-uh-muhs) adjective
Occurring in pairs; twin.
[From Greek didymos (twin). Ultimately from the Indo-European root dwo- (two)
that also gave us dual, double, dubious, doubt, diploma, twin, and between.]
-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)
"Shakespeare portrays the didymous functionaries as if they were
a unit comprised of two parts."
Peter Usher; Hamlet's Universe; Aventine Press; 2006
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3 comments:
I just knew you subscribed to that site. :D Me too!
Would that make us A Word a Day twins?
ODLP: Yes, we be AWAD didymi (sp?)
This also fills in a little bit on Didymus Thomas in the New Testament and on Didymus Judas Thomas, purported author of the (gnostic) Gospel of Thomas, as well as a presence in the (gnostic) Dialogue of the Savior.
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