geminous

英語

詞源

拉丁語 geminus。

發音

• 韻部：-ɛmɪnəs

形容詞

geminous (無比較級)

1. 成對的

   geminous teeth

   成對的牙齒

   • 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 頁:

     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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參考資料

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

異序詞

• Minogues