Dioskuren
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German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Διόσκουροι (Dióskouroi, “sons of Zeus”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Proper noun[edit]
Dioskuren pl (proper noun, plural only)
- (Greek mythology) Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux)
- (by extension) pair of inseparable friends
- 1924, Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain], volume 1, Berlin: S. Fischer, page 363:
- „Hallo!“ sagte er. „Das sind ja unsere Dioskuren! Castorp und Pollux … Bitte, Wehelaute zu unterdrücken!
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension[edit]
Declension of Dioskuren [pl-only]
Further reading[edit]
- “Dioskuren” in Duden online
- “Dioskuren” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Dioskuren on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de