Comments | margdean56: The City Dipherent?

margdean56

The City Dipherent?

Mar 27, 2009 10:28

Well, that's what it said on the bumper sticker: Keep Santa Fe Dipherent. Ha, thought I. That's a word I've never seen before. I'll look it up when I get home and know that I'm learning something ( Read more... )

language, words

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margdean56 March 28 2009, 19:07:53 UTC

...oh, and it's obviously pronounced "die-FEER-ent." :)

arlojamesbarnes January 2 2015, 19:18:04 UTC

Something that is being doubly-borne would be a dipherend.

rose_the_flower March 29 2009, 19:16:09 UTC

It sounds chemical to me, but of course it would. Perhaps some sort of analog to divalent.

Meanwhile, according to the Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms, Diphy- is Greek for double-natured/twofold, and Er is Greek for Spring/the earth. I could see the -y in Diphy being swallowed up by the Er. And that would get us either something esoteric, or something astronomical.

rose_the_flower March 30 2009, 02:14:52 UTC

A milkmaid's yoke is dipherent. (An egg carton is dodecapherent.)

margdean56 March 30 2009, 15:28:04 UTC

A woman pregnant with twins might also be dipherent, as might, say, a pregnant female cat carrying kittens sired by two different males (which can happen).

Dipherent - the chemical version rose_the_flower April 5 2009, 13:20:22 UTC

Chemically, it refers to a chelate complex in which the metal ion is bound to two atoms of the chelant. (EDTA, on the other hand, is hexapherent).

Re: Dipherent - the chemical version margdean56 April 5 2009, 19:08:45 UTC

I thought it would probably be something like that. Really. ;)