How to spell Twin in Greek and Latin?

Answer 1

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In Latin "castor" means twin brother, "gemellus" means a twin, "geminus" (gemini means twins) means twin or a double, pollux means the twin brother of Castor (Castor and Pollux - Gemini).

I have given the link for the Greek translation. I hope this helps.

Source(s):

http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/storclas…

http://www.in.gr/dictionary/lookup.asp?W…

Answer 2

I don't know about the Greek but in Latin twin is Geminus, -a ,-um

Answer 3

I would not recommend using "castor" to mean a twin.
Without the capital letter it means a beaver!

Gemellus - twin (for poetic usage in Latin)
Geminus - male twin (prose usage)
Gemina - female twin

Ancient Greek version
διδυμος (didumos ) male twin
διδυμη (didume ) female twin

In English script you can also write it as didymos,didyme

Source(s):

Oxford Latin Dictionary - Lewis & Short
Oxford Greek - English Lexicon - Stuart Jones & McKenzie
English - Greek Dictionary - Woodhouse
English - Latin Dictionary - Woodhouse