twi-

Word Origin

a combining form meaning “two,” “twice”:

twibill.

Origin

Middle English, Old English; cognate with German zwie- (Old High German zwi-), Latin bi-, Greek di-. See two

Related Words

twibill
twice
twill
zwieback

twi-a word element meaning 'two', or 'twice', as in twibill.

[Middle English and Old English; distantly related to Latin bi-. See two]

twi-
\\\\ˈtwī\\\\ prefix

ETYMOLOGY Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German zwi- twi-, Latin bi-, Greek di-, Old English twā two

: two : double : doubly : twice
twi-headed

twi-, twy-, prefix|twaɪ|[OE. twi- = OFris. twi-, MLG. twi-, MDu. twe-, Du. twee-, OHG. zwi-, Ger. zwie-, ON. tví-, Norw., Sw., Da. tve-; cognate with Skr. dvi-, Gr. δι-, L. bi-, Lith. dvi-, from root akin to Skr. dwau, dwē, Gr. δύο, L. duo, two. In OE. the regular comb. form expressing two, sometimes twice.]a. In parasynthetic comb. with n. + -ed², forming adjs. with the sense ‘having two..’, ‘two..-ed’, as twi- (or twy-)arched, twi-clustered, twi-coloured, twi-eared, twi-faced, twi-flamed, twi-gated, twi-headed, twi-linked, twi-mouthed, twi-natured, twi-necked, twi-peaked, twi-pointed, twi-shaped (see also twi-banked, etc. in e); also with n. simply, in the same sense, as twi-top adj. (see also twiform in e). b. With adj. or pple. in sense ‘in two ways or respects, doubly’, as twi- (twy-)streaming, twi-yoked. c. With n. in sense ‘twofold, double’, as twi-circle, twi-nature, twi-reason (see also twi-car, etc. in e). d. In sense ‘twice’ or ‘a second time’, as twi-(twy-)born adj. (see also twichild in e). e. Special Combs.: twi-banked a., having two banks of oars; twi-car, used by W. Morris to represent Gr. δίϕρος chariot (properly ‘the chariot-board, on which two could stand’, L. & Sc.); twichild (twy-) (obs. exc. dial.), one who is ‘twice a child’, an old man in his second childhood; also, (one's) second childhood; also as adj.; twifoil (twy-) Her. = dufoil; twi-forked (twy-) a., divided in two like a fork, bifurcate; twiform, -formed (twy-) adjs., having a double form; formed of two (esp. different or incongruous) parts (in quot. 1703, having some part double); twi-life (nonce-wd. after twilight), a life marked by indistinct perception or consciousness; twi-minded a., having two minds or thoughts (about something); considering (it) in two ways or aspects; twy-prong, a two-pronged fork; twi-thought (nonce-wd. after twilight), an indistinct or vague thought; † twi-wifing, bigamy. See also twibill, twibit, twifallow, twifold, twilight, twirede, twispeche.1903Westm. Gaz. 22 Aug. 2/1 A *twi-arched bridge of stone.1875Morris æneid viii. 79 Two *twi-banked keels.1908G. Murray Euripides' Hippolytus 30 That Mother fair Of *Twy-born Bacchus.1887Morris Odyss. xv. 75 But abide till I bring to thy *twi-car the gifts.c1580J. Jeffere Bugbears i. iii. 69 in Archiv. Stud. Neu. Spr. (1897) XCVIII. 313 O my *twichild and my babye!1656W. D. tr. Comenius' Gate Lat. Unl. §199 Old men are said to grow children again, and to bee twichilde.1829Southey Oliver Newman vi, Encumber'd with a twichild man.1889Gissing Both of this Parish xxiii. II. 175, I thought it was but a deception o' my twichild, for I be getting aged.1895F. Thompson Sister Songs 13 In *twi-circle o'er the grass.a1834Coleridge The Pang more sharp ii, Babe..From its *twy-cluster'd hiding-place of snow.1903Academy 18 July 56/1 A *twi-coloured thread, red and white.1904R. J. Farrer Garden Asia 270 Little twy-coloured bubbles.1879Butcher & Lang Odyssey 359 A..*twy-eared chalice of gold.1635Quarles Embl. v. xiv. 40 Wry-mouth'd disdaine,..And *twy-fac'd Fraud.1875Morris æneid xii. 198 Twi-faced Janus.1822T. G. Wainewright Ess. & Crit. (1880) 298 The *twi-flamed torch.1688*Twyfoile [see dufoil].c1828Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss., Twyfoil or Dufoil.1891Cent. Dict., Twifoil.1635Quarles Embl. ii. xiii. 10 Her flaming head, *Twy-forked with death.1639G. Daniel Ecclus. xxvii. 60 A Twi-forkt Iavelin doth divide his heart.1658Bromhall Treat. Specters iv. 258 Ioves twy-forked lightning.1738Gentl. Mag. VIII. 375/1 Twi-fork'd Malvern with his tow'ring height.1812Cary Dante, Purg. xxxii. 95 The wain..Bound to the *twyform beast.1907F. Thompson Ode Setting Sun, Thou twi-form deity.1607J. Davies Summa Totalis H iij, This huge *twy-form'd Fabrick.1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 7 Twiform'd Creatures, as..a Serpent with a Head at each end; the Spread Eagle with 2 Heads.1852Kingsley Andromeda 58 Twyformed, many-handed, terrible, shapeless.1887Bowen æneid vi. 25 Twiformed Minotaur, two bodies combined.1573Twyne æneid x. D d j, In parliment house they sat *twigated wyde.1895Month June 237 Illustrations of the eagle both single and *twi-headed.1889Lowell in Atlantic Monthly LXIV. 146 This illusion..That witches us to hear and see As in a *twi-life what it will.1875Morris æneid xii. 375 His *twilinked coat of mail.1883G. Meredith Earth & Man xliv, *Twi-minded of him, as the waxing tree, Or dated leaf.1886E. Dowden Let. Jan. in Fragments from Old Lett. (1914) I. 176 You raise..a difficult general question concerning the destruction of old letters. As usual, I am twi-minded.1932V. Woolf Common Reader 2nd Ser. 174 From the first he [sc. Hazlitt] was a twy-minded man.1875Morris æneid ix. 617 To hear the flute's *twi-mouthed song.1897W. B. Yeats Secret Rose 178 Then the *twy-nature faded.1868Tennyson Lucretius 194 A satyr,..but him I proved impossible; *Twy-natured is no nature.1879F. W. H. Myers in 19th Cent. June 959 That strange antithesis in the ‘twy-natured’ French.1916G. Saintsbury Peace of Augustans viii. 287 The cat was a nymph and the nymph was a cat; the two lines fit the twynatured creature in both its natures.1840Browning Sordello iv. 388 The Kaiser's ominous sign⁓mark..The crowned, grim, *twy-necked eagle.1906Edin. Rev. Apr. 319 A *twy-peaked monticule.1623Lisle ælfric on O. & N. Test. Ded. 1 *Twi-pointed Pernas hill.1840Browning Sordello iii. 1019 That's no *twy-prong, but a pastoral cross.1884― Ferishtah, Camel-Driver 51 This red-hot twy-prong.1632B. Jonson Magn. Lady iii. v, You shall pardon me For a *twi-reason of State.1907F. Thompson New Poems, Hermes 188 Behold, with rod *twy-serpented Hermes, the prophet.1875Morris æneid vi. 286 *Twi-shaped Scyllas.1794Coleridge Relig. Musings 204 Property..*twy-streaming fount, Whence Vice and Virtue flow, honey and gall.1885G. Meredith Diana xxiv, Diana saw herself through the haze she conjured up. ‘Am I worse than other women?’ was a piercing *twi-thought.1622Wither Fair Virtue E ij, The *twy-top Hill, Where the Poets learne their skill.c1250Gen. & Ex. 450 Bigamie..On engleis tale, *twie-wifing.1875Morris æneid xii. 164 With *twiyoked horses white.

twi-

word-forming element meaning "two, twice, double, in two ways," from Old English twi- "two, in two ways, twice, double," from Proto-Germanic *twi- (cognates: Old Frisian twi-, Old Norse tvi-, Dutch twee-, Old High German zwi-, German zwei-), from PIE *dwis (cognates: Sanskrit dvi-, Greek di-, Old Latin dvi-, Latin bi-, Lithuanian dvi-), from *dwo "two" (see two). Cognate with bi-. Older instances of it include Middle English twinter "two years old" (c.1400, of cattle, sheep, etc.), reduced from Old English twi-wintre, and Old English twispræc "double or deceitful speech."

twi- /twʌɪ/ prefix. arch. Also twy-. OE.

ORIGIN: Old English twi-, twy- = Old Frisian twi-, Old High German zwi-, Old Norse tví- cogn. with Latin bi-, Greek di-², Sanskrit dvi-, from base rel. to that of two.

Forming words with the senses ‘having two’, as twi-headed, twi-natured; ‘doubly’, as twi-yoked; ‘twofold, double’, as twi-circle, twi-reason; ‘twice, a second time’, as twi-born.

DERIVATIVE twifallow verb trans. (now dial.) fallow (land) twice or for a second time M16.

twi-

prefix. two; in two ways; double; twice, as in twilight.

[Old English twi- two-, double]

Twi

twee, noun, plural Twi or Twis.

a member of the chief tribe of Ghana.

the language of this tribe, a Sudanic dialect of Kwa.

Also, Tshi.

twi-
prefix
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old Frisian & Old Saxon twi-, Old High German zwi-, Old Norse tvī-, tvē-, Latin bi- (from Old Latin dui-), Greek di-, Lithuanian dvi- twi-, Old English twēgen, twā, tū two — more at two
: two : double : doubly : twice
< twi-circle >
< twi-faced >

twi-

Prefix

rare or no longer productive two

twi-headed
rare or no longer productive double, both

twilight, twi-tongued

Etymology

From Middle English twi-, from Old English twī- (“two, double”), from Proto-Germanic *twi-, *twī- (“two-, double-”), from Proto-Germanic *twiz (“twice”), from Proto-Indo-European *duis (“twice”), from *duwo (“two”), *dwóh₁ (compare English duo).

Compare twin, twice, two, and see more details at two.

Cognate with German zwie- (“twice”), Old Prussian dwi- (“twi-”), Latin bī-, bis (“twice”) (< Old Latin duī-, duis), Swedish -tve.

Synonyms

duo-

di-

twy-

twin-

Derived terms

English words prefixed with twi-

前缀：twi- 表示“二, 两”

twilight 黎明，黄昏（twi+light光→黑白光交替）

twiformed 有两种形式的（twi+form形状＋ed）

前缀：twi- 二、两

twifortned 有二形的

twilight 黎明，黄昏，曙暮光

twifold 两倍，双重

twiblade 双叶兰

twiforked 有两叉的

前缀：twi-

【词根含义】：二

【词根来源】：来源于古英语twa, tu，在撒克逊语中为twi-，古高地德语为zwi-，古斯堪的纳维亚语为tvi, tve, 拉丁语为bi-，希腊语为di-

词汇	twi-
词根词缀	Dictionary.com Macquarie MWCD OED Online Etymology Dictionary SOED WBD Webster Wiktionary YoudictWordRoots twi- Word Origin 1 a combining form meaning “two,” “twice”: twibill. Origin Middle English, Old English; cognate with German zwie- (Old High German zwi-), Latin bi-, Greek di-. See two Related Words twibill twice twill zwieback twi-a word element meaning 'two', or 'twice', as in twibill. [Middle English and Old English; distantly related to Latin bi-. See two] twi- \\\\ˈtwī\\\\ prefix ETYMOLOGY Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German zwi- twi-, Latin bi-, Greek di-, Old English twā two : two : double : doubly : twice twi-headed twi-, twy-, prefix\|twaɪ\|[OE. twi- = OFris. twi-, MLG. twi-, MDu. twe-, Du. twee-, OHG. zwi-, Ger. zwie-, ON. tví-, Norw., Sw., Da. tve-; cognate with Skr. dvi-, Gr. δι-, L. bi-, Lith. dvi-, from root akin to Skr. dwau, dwē, Gr. δύο, L. duo, two. In OE. the regular comb. form expressing two, sometimes twice.]a. In parasynthetic comb. with n. + -ed², forming adjs. with the sense ‘having two..’, ‘two..-ed’, as twi- (or twy-)arched, *twi-clustered, twi-coloured, twi-eared, twi-faced, twi-flamed, twi-gated, twi-headed, twi-linked, twi-mouthed, twi-natured, twi-necked, twi-peaked, twi-pointed, twi-shaped* (see also twi-banked, etc. in e); also with n. simply, in the same sense, as *twi-top* adj. (see also twiform in e). b. With adj. or pple. in sense ‘in two ways or respects, doubly’, as *twi- (twy-)streaming, twi-yoked. c. With n. in sense ‘twofold, double’, as twi-circle, twi-nature, twi-reason* (see also twi-car, etc. in e). d. In sense ‘twice’ or ‘a second time’, as *twi-(twy-)born* adj. (see also twichild in e). e. Special Combs.: twi-banked a., having two banks of oars; twi-car, used by W. Morris to represent Gr. δίϕρος chariot (properly ‘the chariot-board, on which two could stand’, L. & Sc.); twichild (twy-) (obs. exc. dial.), one who is ‘twice a child’, an old man in his second childhood; also, (one's) second childhood; also as adj.; twifoil (twy-) Her. = dufoil; twi-forked (twy-) a., divided in two like a fork, bifurcate; twiform, -formed (twy-) adjs., having a double form; formed of two (esp. different or incongruous) parts (in quot. 1703, having some part double); twi-life (nonce-wd. after twilight), a life marked by indistinct perception or consciousness; twi-minded a., having two minds or thoughts (about something); considering (it) in two ways or aspects; twy-prong, a two-pronged fork; twi-thought (nonce-wd. after twilight), an indistinct or vague thought; † twi-wifing, bigamy. See also twibill, twibit, twifallow, twifold, twilight, twirede, twispeche.1903Westm. Gaz. 22 Aug. 2/1 A twi-arched bridge of stone.1875Morris æneid* viii. 79 Two twi-banked keels.1908G. Murray Euripides' Hippolytus* 30 That Mother fair Of Twy-born Bacchus.1887Morris Odyss.* xv. 75 But abide till I bring to thy twi-car the gifts.c1580J. Jeffere Bugbears* i. iii. 69 in Archiv. Stud. Neu. Spr. (1897) XCVIII. 313 O my twichild and my babye!1656W. D. tr. Comenius' Gate Lat. Unl.* §199 Old men are said to grow children again, and to bee twichilde.1829Southey Oliver Newman vi, Encumber'd with a twichild man.1889Gissing Both of this Parish xxiii. II. 175, I thought it was but a deception o' my twichild, for I be getting aged.1895F. Thompson Sister Songs 13 In twi-circle o'er the grass.a1834Coleridge The Pang more sharp* ii, Babe..From its twy-cluster'd hiding-place of snow.1903Academy 18 July 56/1 A twi-coloured thread, red and white.1904R. J. Farrer Garden Asia 270 Little twy-coloured bubbles.1879Butcher & Lang Odyssey 359 A..twy-eared chalice of gold.1635Quarles Embl.* v. xiv. 40 Wry-mouth'd disdaine,..And twy-fac'd Fraud.1875Morris æneid* xii. 198 Twi-faced Janus.1822T. G. Wainewright Ess. & Crit. (1880) 298 The twi-flamed torch.1688Twyfoile [see dufoil].c1828Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss., Twyfoil or Dufoil.1891Cent. Dict., Twifoil.1635Quarles Embl. ii. xiii. 10 Her flaming head, Twy-forked with death.1639G. Daniel Ecclus.* xxvii. 60 A Twi-forkt Iavelin doth divide his heart.1658Bromhall Treat. Specters iv. 258 Ioves twy-forked lightning.1738Gentl. Mag. VIII. 375/1 Twi-fork'd Malvern with his tow'ring height.1812Cary Dante, Purg. xxxii. 95 The wain..Bound to the twyform beast.1907F. Thompson Ode Setting Sun, Thou twi-form deity.1607J. Davies Summa Totalis* H iij, This huge twy-form'd Fabrick.1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser* 7 Twiform'd Creatures, as..a Serpent with a Head at each end; the Spread Eagle with 2 Heads.1852Kingsley Andromeda 58 Twyformed, many-handed, terrible, shapeless.1887Bowen æneid vi. 25 Twiformed Minotaur, two bodies combined.1573Twyne æneid x. D d j, In parliment house they sat twigated wyde.1895Month June 237 Illustrations of the eagle both single and twi-headed.1889Lowell in Atlantic Monthly LXIV. 146 This illusion..That witches us to hear and see As in a twi-life what it will.1875Morris æneid* xii. 375 His twilinked coat of mail.1883G. Meredith Earth & Man* xliv, Twi-minded of him, as the waxing tree, Or dated leaf.1886E. Dowden Let.* Jan. in Fragments from Old Lett. (1914) I. 176 You raise..a difficult general question concerning the destruction of old letters. As usual, I am twi-minded.1932V. Woolf Common Reader 2nd Ser. 174 From the first he [sc. Hazlitt] was a twy-minded man.1875Morris æneid ix. 617 To hear the flute's twi-mouthed song.1897W. B. Yeats Secret Rose* 178 Then the twy-nature faded.1868Tennyson Lucretius* 194 A satyr,..but him I proved impossible; Twy-natured is no nature.1879F. W. H. Myers in 19th Cent.* June 959 That strange antithesis in the ‘twy-natured’ French.1916G. Saintsbury Peace of Augustans viii. 287 The cat was a nymph and the nymph was a cat; the two lines fit the twynatured creature in both its natures.1840Browning Sordello iv. 388 The Kaiser's ominous sign⁓mark..The crowned, grim, twy-necked eagle.1906Edin. Rev. Apr. 319 A twy-peaked monticule.1623Lisle ælfric on O. & N. Test. Ded. 1 Twi-pointed Pernas hill.1840Browning Sordello* iii. 1019 That's no twy-prong, but a pastoral cross.1884― Ferishtah, Camel-Driver* 51 This red-hot twy-prong.1632B. Jonson Magn. Lady iii. v, You shall pardon me For a twi-reason of State.1907F. Thompson New Poems, Hermes* 188 Behold, with rod twy-serpented Hermes, the prophet.1875Morris æneid* vi. 286 Twi-shaped Scyllas.1794Coleridge Relig. Musings* 204 Property..twy-streaming fount, Whence Vice and Virtue flow, honey and gall.1885G. Meredith Diana* xxiv, Diana saw herself through the haze she conjured up. ‘Am I worse than other women?’ was a piercing twi-thought.1622Wither Fair Virtue* E ij, The twy-top Hill, Where the Poets learne their skill.c1250Gen. & Ex. 450 Bigamie..On engleis tale, twie-wifing.1875Morris æneid xii. 164 With twiyoked horses white. twi- word-forming element meaning "two, twice, double, in two ways," from Old English twi- "two, in two ways, twice, double," from Proto-Germanic twi- (cognates: Old Frisian twi-, Old Norse tvi-, Dutch twee-, Old High German zwi-, German zwei-), from PIE dwis (cognates: Sanskrit dvi-, Greek di-, Old Latin dvi-, Latin bi-, Lithuanian dvi-), from dwo "two" (see two). Cognate with bi-. Older instances of it include Middle English twinter "two years old" (c.1400, of cattle, sheep, etc.), reduced from Old English twi-wintre, and Old English twispræc "double or deceitful speech." twi- /twʌɪ/ prefix. arch. Also twy-. OE. ORIGIN: Old English twi-, twy- = Old Frisian twi-, Old High German zwi-, Old Norse tví- cogn. with Latin bi-, Greek di-², Sanskrit dvi-, from base rel. to that of two. Forming words with the senses ‘having two’, as twi-headed, twi-natured; ‘doubly’, as twi-yoked; ‘twofold, double’, as twi-circle, twi-reason; ‘twice, a second time’, as twi-born. DERIVATIVE twifallow verb trans. (now dial.) fallow (land) twice or for a second time M16. twi- prefix. two; in two ways; double; twice, as in twilight. [Old English twi- two-, double] Twi twee, noun, plural Twi or Twis. a member of the chief tribe of Ghana. the language of this tribe, a Sudanic dialect of Kwa. Also, Tshi. twi- prefix Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old Frisian & Old Saxon twi-, Old High German zwi-, Old Norse tvī-, tvē-, Latin bi- (from Old Latin dui-), Greek di-, Lithuanian dvi- twi-, Old English twēgen, twā, tū two — more at two : two : double : doubly : twice < twi-circle > < twi-faced > twi- Prefix rare or no longer productive two twi-headed rare or no longer productive double, both twilight, twi-tongued Etymology From Middle English twi-, from Old English twī- (“two, double”), from Proto-Germanic twi-, twī- (“two-, double-”), from Proto-Germanic twiz (“twice”), from Proto-Indo-European duis (“twice”), from duwo (“two”), dwóh₁ (compare English duo). Compare twin, twice, two, and see more details at two. Cognate with German zwie- (“twice”), Old Prussian dwi- (“twi-”), Latin bī-, bis (“twice”) (< Old Latin duī-, duis), Swedish -tve. Synonyms duo- di- twy- twin- Derived terms ► English words prefixed with twi- 前缀：twi- 表示“二, 两” twilight 黎明，黄昏（twi+light光→黑白光交替） twiformed 有两种形式的（twi+form形状＋ed）前缀：twi- 二、两 twifortned 有二形的 twilight 黎明，黄昏，曙暮光 twifold 两倍，双重 twiblade 双叶兰 twiforked 有两叉的前缀：twi- 【词根含义】：二【词根来源】：来源于古英语twa, tu，在撒克逊语中为twi-，古高地德语为zwi-，古斯堪的纳维亚语为tvi, tve, 拉丁语为bi-，希腊语为di-
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