geminous

英语

词源

拉丁语 geminus。

发音

• 韵部：-ɛmɪnəs

形容词

geminous (无比较级)

1. 成对的

   geminous teeth

   成对的牙齿

   • 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”, 出自 Calcutta Review, 第 36 卷，第 v 页:

     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.

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参考资料

• “geminous”，Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary，Springfield, Mass.：G. & C. Merriam，1913年，OCLC 800618302

异序词

• Minogues