In French what do we call the father or mother of twins?
In French, there is no name to qualify the mother or the father of twins. There is an adjective: "gémellipare" (gemelliparous), but this is rather used to qualify a species as a whole, for example:
Les quadrupèdes sont rarement gémellipares. <=> Quadrupeds are rarely gemelliparous.
We can however find in the literature, in a very anecdotal way, the expressions "père gémellipare" (gemelliparous father) or "mère gémellipare" (gemelliparous mother) to speak about the parents of twins. Here is an extract from the book "Les rites gémellaires chez les pygmées du Congo et leur évolution historique": Mais dans cette société matrilinéaire, la mère gémellipare est mieux traitée que le père gémellipare.
In French, there is no name to qualify the mother or the father of twins. There is an adjective: "gémellipare" (gemelliparous), but this is rather used to qualify a species as a whole, for example:
Les quadrupèdes sont rarement gémellipares. <=> Quadrupeds are rarely gemelliparous.
We can however find in the literature, in a very anecdotal way, the expressions "père gémellipare" (gemelliparous father) or "mère gémellipare" (gemelliparous mother) to speak about the parents of twins. Here is an extract from the book "Les rites gémellaires chez les pygmées du Congo et leur évolution historique": Mais dans cette société matrilinéaire, la mère gémellipare est mieux traitée que le père gémellipare.
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