The corpus record — Latin

gemellipara

gemellipara · f

twin-bearing

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Where it lives

Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

gĕmellĭpăra — Lewis & Short

gĕmellĭpăra, ae, f.gemellus-pario,

I twin-bearing, an epithet framed by Ovid, and applied to Latona (on account of her twin-children, Apollo and Diana): dea, Ov. F. 5, 542: divae, id. M. 6, 315.

In the wild

gemelliparae Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.315
gemelliparae Ovid, Fasti 5.542

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.