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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--didymous This week's theme: Words with double connections didymous (DID-uh-muhs) adjective Occurring in pairs; twin. [From Greek didymos (twin). Ultimately from the Indo-European root dwo- (two) that also gave us dual, double, dubious, doubt, diploma, twin, and between.] "Shakespeare portrays the didymous functionaries as if they were a unit comprised of two parts." Peter Usher; Hamlet's Universe; Aventine Press; 2006. X-Bonus God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest. -Swedish proverb

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