Noun: gemel
| Singular | gemel |
| Plural | gemels |
Sample Sentences
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half a million which Demon considered henceforth as a loan his cousin should certainly refund him if sanity counted for something on this gemel planet. [1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 197:]
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two gemells silver between two griffins passant [1698, John Strype, Life of the learned Sir Thomas Smith:]
Nouns inflected like gemel
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English gemow, from Old French gemel, from Latin gemellus, diminutive of geminus (“twin”). The modern form is influenced by the Latin etymon. See: Middle English Nouns '
gemow', Latin Nouns '
gemellus'.