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gemellus

born at the same time

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Where it lives

Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Carmina 3 · 2.33/10k
Eclogues 1 · 2.2/10k
Peristephanon Liber 3 · 1.71/10k
Epistulae 4 · 1.56/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Fasti 3 · 0.96/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Epigrammata 3 · 0.53/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

gĕmellus — Lewis & Short

gĕmellus, a, um,

I adj. dim. [geminus], born at the same time, twin-born, twin- (mostly poet.; cf. geminus).

I Lit.

A Adj.: flebat avus Phoebeque soror fratresque gemelli, Ov. H. 8, 77: proles, id. ib. 6, 121; id. M. 9, 453: fetus, id. H. 6, 143: partus, id. M. 6, 712; Vulg. Cant. 4, 2.—

B Subst.: gĕmellus, i, m., a twin: gemelle Castor et gemelle Castoris, Cat. 4, 27: namque est enixa gemellos, Ov. M. 11, 316; cf. Verg. E. 1, 14: hac in re scilicet una Multum dissimiles, at cetera paene gemelli Fraternis animis, etc., Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 3.—

II Transf.

A In gen., paired, double: poma cohaerentia et gemella, Plin. 15, 14, 15, § 51: vites, that have two clusters on one stalk, id. 14, 2, 4, § 21 (for which: geminae vites, Col. 3, 2, 10): gemella legio, formed out of two legions, Caes. B. C. 3, 4, 1; cf. geminus, II. A.—

B Resembling or like, as twins: par nobile fratrum, Nequitia et nugis pravorum et amore gemellum, Hor. S. 2, 3, 244: pinus, Mart. 10, 92, 3: uniones, id. 12, 49, 12.

In the wild

gemellam Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.4.1
gemellos Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.712
gemelli Vitruvius, De Architectura 10.7.1
gemello Prudentius, Hamartigenia 1.96
gemelli Horace, Epistulae 1.10.3
gemelli Ovid, Epistulae 8.77

6 of 36 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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