Message: "Information on Didyme"

[Facts] Information on Didyme

by Antigone (guest)

8/21/2009, 2:07 PM

I am looking for any information - background, meaning, ectera - on the name Didyme (personally, I pronounce it DID-YEMMIE). I am assuming it is a feminine name, but other then that I don't have much else to go on. I have been interested in this name for quite some time, but my research has turned up nothing other then irratating Twilight refrences. Surely the name was around long before the books. Anything you can tell me would be helpful but please, PLEASE no Twilight refrences, or I just might have to hurt you.

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- Marija Luminitsa

8/21/2009, 6:18 PM

Didyme is Greek and means twin. In addition to the mythology connection that Kirke posted, it was the old Greek name of the island of Salina (see: http://www.travel-italy.com/info/sicily/articles/aeolian_islands_salina.php ). The masculine form, Didymos gives us the element name Neodymium (see: http://periodic.lanl.gov/elements/60.html ). Didymos (aka Didymus) was the name of a Greek scholar (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didymus_Chalcenterus ).

In Modern Greek, I'm pretty sure Didyme (Δίδυμη) is pronounced THEE-thee-mee (TH as in this). I'm unsure of the English pronunciation, but I would fancy a guess of die-DIE-mee or did-IE-mee.

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- Kirke (guest)

8/21/2009, 2:28 PM

Also

Although it's a feminine name in Greek, it is also the French masculine form of the name Didymus.

According to a Polish name book I have(Polish form of Didymus are Dydym and Dydymus) the names mean double or twin.

- Kirke (guest) +2

8/21/2009, 2:22 PM

It's Greek but I don't know the meaning.

It's found in history, here's one example:

http://www.geocities.com/christopherjbennett/ptolemies/didyme.htm

- Solunastra

8/22/2009, 4:34 PM

The meaning would be "twin," at least as of Koine (New Testament) Greek. The biblical disciple Thomas Didymus was probably a twin, as evidenced by both Hebrew and Greek names meaning "twin."

I'd pronounce Didyme "DIH-deh-may" but I have no idea if that's correct.

- Antigone (guest)

8/21/2009, 6:32 PM

Fantastic. Thank you so very much for this. :)

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