Pronounced: yents, verb
Notes: I don’t recall every running across this word
Yesterday’s word
The word dyad means “a pair, due, or set of two things”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1600s
Background / Comments
Because I read a lot of Greek/Roman mythology, I confused our word with “dryad”, which is a kind of woodland god. Astute people not thrown off by classical mythology may have noticed the similarity to “duo”. Our word comes from the Greek word dyad-, which is the root of dyás (pair), which is equivalent to dýo (two) with the noun ending -ad.
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