didyme
French, noun/di.dim/
didyme is a French masculine noun meaning “didymium” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nom donné par Carl Gustaf Mosander à un mélange de praséodyme et de néodyme, mélange qu’il avait pris pour un…”.
What does didyme mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedidymium
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui est formé de deux parties plus ou moins arrondies et accouplées.
noun: 1. Nom donné par Carl Gustaf Mosander à un mélange de praséodyme et de néodyme, mélange qu’il avait pris pour un corps simple. Symbole Di.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of didyme
- didymes plural masculine feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce didyme?
- /di.dim/
- \di.dim\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is didyme in French?
didyme appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).