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Didymos, ancient Greek male main name.

Etymology of name
The name Didymos derives from the ancient Greek adjective two-dy-mos, which, according to the Dictionary of the New Greek Language of George Babiniotis, is produced by an expressive doubling of the two.

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Thus, the name Didimos is semantically identical to today's Greek male names Gemellos / Geminos, Thomas and Thomas.

Female type
Twins.

Dissemination
In ancient times the name Didymos was not particularly common. According to Thetima, it appears throughout the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names (LGPN) to carry 93 persons. The earliest suretest testimony is from Athens in the 4th century BC and the last testimony from Aetolia in the 6th century AD. Geographical diaspora of the name: Macedonia, Lycia, Lydia, Cilicia Pedias, Cyprus, Kyrenaikos, Kyrini, Bithynia, Athens, Ionia, Thrace, Karia, Campania, Boeotia, Aetolia, Mysia, Delos, Thassos, Crete, Nisyros, Paros, Rhodes, Tinos, Pamphylia, Arcadia, Sparta, Sicily, Troada. Parallel types: Didymus (1st century BC–1st century AD, imperial period, 1st–2nd century AD, Lower Italy), Didimus (1st century BC-1st century AD, Lower Italy).

Nominal holiday
Theodora and Gemini, the Orthodox Church honors their memory on April 5 and the Catholic on April 28; "Saint Didymus of Alexandria", CatholicSaints. Info.
Gemini et al. (twelve Counts and Triboons), the Orthodox Church honors their memory on 24 May;
Diodorou and Gemini, the Orthodox Church honors their memory on 11 September, and the Catholic on 9 October; "San Diodoro, Diomede e Didimo", Santi e Beati.
Gemini, martyr, according to Sophronios Eustratiades, "local saint of Cyprus", the Orthodox Church honors its memory on February 20.

Name in other languages
Through Latin Dydimus, the name was also spread in other languages:
Spanish: Dídimo; Catalan: Dídim; Basque: Didima.
French: Didyme;
Polish: Dydym, Dydymus;
Portuguese: Dídimo;
Russian: Дидим (Dydim);
Slovenian: Didim'.

Persons

Twin (4th/5th century AD), cousin of the Roman emperor