1. geminus — de Vaan
geminus 'born at the same time, twin-born' [adj. o] (Naev.+) Derivatives: geminare 'to repeat, double' (Ter.+), congeminare 'to double' (P1.+), — [de Vaan, s.v. geminus, p. 270]
The corpus record — Latin
geminus
geminus
born at the same time, twin-born
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Versus Paschales Pro Augusto Dicti 1 · 51.55/10k
- De Herediolo 1 · 44.84/10k
- Menaechmi 15 · 15.79/10k
- Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 14.47/10k
- Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 3 · 13.95/10k
- In Eutropium 10 · 13.92/10k
- Moretum, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 12.92/10k
- Mosella 4 · 12.3/10k
- Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 1 · 11.76/10k
- Carminum minorum corpusculum 9 · 10.66/10k
- de bello Gildonico 3 · 9.48/10k
- Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
Densest 12 of 128 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. gĕmĭnus — Lewis & Short
gĕmĭnus, a, um, adj.cf.: gener, genui (gigno),
I born at the same time, twin-born, twin- (class.).
I Lit.
A Adj.:
tibi sunt gemini et trigemini filii,Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 123:
filios parere,id. Am. 5, 1, 36:
C. et L. Fabricii fratres gemini fuerunt ex municipio Aletrinati,twin-brothers, Cic. Clu. 16, 46;
v. frater: sorores,Ov. M. 4, 774; Hor. C. 4, 7, 5; cf.:
soror gemina germana,Plaut. Mil. 2, 4, 30:
pueri,Verg. A. 8, 631:
proles,id. ib. 1, 274: dei (i. e. Apollo and Diana), Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 16 Müll. (Trag. v. 425 Vahl.):
partus,Liv. 1, 4, 2:
Castor,i. e. Castor and Pollux, Ov. A. A. 1, 746; cf.
Pollux,Hor. C. 3, 29, 64:
nec gemino bellum Trojanum orditur ab ovo,i. e. from Helen, the twin-daughter of Leda, id. A. P. 147:
fratres, Amphion atque Zethus,id. Ep. 1, 18, 41:
Quirini,i. e. Romulus and Remus, Juv. 11, 105.—Comically in the sup.: To. Hic ejus geminust frater. Do. Hicine'st? To. Ac geminissimus, Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 49.—
B Subst.: gĕmĭni, ōrum, m., twins:
Servilii, qui gemini fuerunt ... ut mater geminos internoscit consuetudine oculorum, sic, etc.,Cic. Ac. 2, 18, 56 sq.; cf.:
geminorum formas esse similes,id. Div. 2, 43, 90; Liv. 1, 6, 4.—Of beasts:
(asina) raro geminos parit,Plin. 8, 43, 68, § 168.—
2 In partic.
a Gemini, as a constellation, The Twins (Castor and Pollux;
acc. to others, Apollo and Hercules),Plin. 18, 29, 69, § 281; Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 7; called also geminum astrum, Col. poët. 10, 312.—
b Acc. to the Gr. di/dumoi, the testicles, i. q. testiculi (late Lat.), Sol. 13; Amm. 16, 7.—
II Transf.
A In gen., paired, double, two-fold, both, two, = duplex, duo:
gemino lucernae lumine declarari, dissensionem et seditionem moveri,Cic. Div. 2, 58, 120; cf.:
ex unis geminas mihi conficies nuptias,Ter. And. 4, 1, 51:
et tripodes gemini,Verg. A. 9, 265:
cum quaererent alii Numerium, alii Quintium, gemini nominis errore servatus est (Numerius Quintius),Cic. Sest. 38, 82:
sunt geminae Somni portae, quarum altera, etc.,Verg. A. 6, 894:
scopuli,id. ib. 1, 162; cf.:
vos, geminae voragines rei publicae,Cic. Pis. 18, 41:
huc geminas nunc flecte acies,your pair of eyes, both eyes, Verg. A. 6, 788:
tempora,id. ib. 5, 416:
nares,id. G. 4, 300:
cornua (Eridani),id. ib. 4, 371:
manus,Mart. 10, 10, 10:
pedes,Ov. F. 2, 154;
for which: pes,id. A. A. 2, 644:
geminae (vites),Col. 3, 2, 10 (for which:
gemellae vites,Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 21):
aliae (percussiones numerorum) sunt geminae,double, Cic. de Or. 3, 47, 182; cf.:
geminis vocalibus,Quint. 1, 7, 14:
M gemina,id. ib. 8: geminique tulit Chironis in antrum, double-formed (half man, half horse), Ov. M. 2, 630; 6, 126; cf.:
corpus Tritonis (half man and half fish),Stat. S. 3, 2, 35: Cecrops (acc. to a myth, half man and half serpent, or half man and half woman;
or else as Egyptian and Greek),Ov. M. 2, 555: GEMINA LEGIO, a double legion (formed out of two legions), epithet of the tenth legion in Hispania, Inscr. Orell. 72 sq.; 1214; 2090;
3376 al. (for which: gemella legio,Caes. B. C. 3, 4, 1; cf. Tac. H. 2, 58): cum geminis exsurgit mensa lucernis, seen double by one in drink, Juv. 6, 305.—
B Resembling, similar, like, as twins:
VOLO, MI FRATER, FRATERCULO TUO CREDAS: consorti quidem in lucris atque in furtis, gemino et simillimo nequitia, improbitate, audaciā,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 66, § 155; cf.:
Dolabella et Antonius ... ecce tibi geminum in scelere par,a twin-pair, id. Phil. 11, 1, 2; Varr. L. L. 9, § 92:
par est avaritia, similis improbitas, eadem impudentia, gemina audacia,Cic. Rosc. Am. 40, 118 fin.; cf. id. Rosc. Com. 18, 55:
quae (memoria) est gemina litteraturae quodammodo et in dissimili genere persimilis,twin-sister, id. Part. 7, 26 (al. germana): illud vero geminum consiliis Catilinae et Lentuli, quod me domo mea expulistis, like, similar, id. Pis. 7, 16; cf.:
ambobus geminus cupido laudis,Sil. 4, 99.
In the wild
- geminam Seneca, Phaedra 1
- geminis Claudian, Carminum minorum corpusculum 29.40
- gemini Vergil, Aeneid 7.670
- geminum Plautus, Menaechmi 2.1
- geminos Prudentius, Hamartigenia 1.789
- gemini Lucan, Pharsalia 2.404
6 of 673 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. geminus (scan p. 270; entry #671).
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. geminus (scan pp. 292-293; entry #4581).
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