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Mellizos o gemelos
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Gemelos = identical twins
Mellizos = non-identical twins I think this has come up in another thread but I can't find it.
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gemelos: Identical twins. They come from the same fertilliced cell
Mellizos: they come from diferent fertiliced cells, They can be both male, both female, or male and a female. saludos
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Thanks - my dictionary defines them both as 'twin'. Both words have the same root L. geminus (gemelo - gemellus - diminutive of geminus; mellizo from Vulg. Latin *gemellicius from gemellus). I was just wondering whether people really do make a distinction between the two.
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My experience (I'm a non-identical twin, so I have a bit!) is that people with a degree in Spanish philology do make a distinction and most other people just call all twins gemelos. I've witnessed a native speaker call identical twins mellizos, and I've used "mellizo" with an Ecuadorian friend and then had to explain to him what it means.
Basically, it's like español vs castellano: whichever you use, you'll be wrong. |
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De todos modos, un médico te hablará de "embarazo gemelar", sean gemelos o mellizos (univitelino o bivitelino).
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How about triplets? How would one express the idea of identical vs. fraternal triplets? (Likewise, quads, quints, etc.?)
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Then x-llizos: trillizos, cuatrillizos, quintillizos y creo que hasta sextillizos.
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Alltough I do make a distinction (I'm always curious ), I agree with pjt33 that the term is very relaxed, and in an usual conversation you can hear both with no proper signification.
@ irmamar "De todos modos, un médico te hablará de "embarazo gemelar", sean gemelos o mellizos (univitelino o bivitelino). " Es correcto, pero yo creo que se cura en salud, el médico no sabe si son mellizos hasta tarde ... Saludos
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From the internet: "TRILLIZOS GEMELARES IDENTICOS" NACEN UNO CADA 200 MILLONES DE PERSONAS NACIERON EL 17 DE OCTUBRE DE 2007 Note the tautology. |
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