gemel
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English
Left: bar gemel. Right: fess voided (charged with mullets). It is said that a difference between a bar gemel and a bar voided is that a bar gemel is a unit and cannot be charged.[1]
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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.
Pronunciation
Noun
gemel (plural gemels)
- (now rare) A twin (also attributively).
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 197:
- 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.
- (heraldry) One of a pair of small bars placed together.
- 1698, John Strype, Life of the learned Sir Thomas Smith:
- two gemells silver between two griffins passant
- (historical) A finger ring which splits into two horizontally.
- A pair of trees that fuse together, or are contained in the same trunk.
Adjective
gemel (not comparable)
- (heraldry) Coupled; paired.
- A bar gemel / Two bars gemels, or two barrulets placed near and parallel to each other.