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Latin
Etymology
From bi- (“two-”) + -gnus (“-born”).
Adjective
bignae f pl
- (hapax legomenon) twin (nominative plural feminine)
, Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 33:Bignae geminae dicuntur, quia bis una die natae sunt.- Twins are called bignae, because two are born in a single day.]
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “gignō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 260–261