Meaning

1 senses
  1. A second marriage (as after the death or divorce of a spouse)

Origin

Borrowed from Latin digamia (“twice married”), from Ancient Greek διγαμία (digamía, “bigam

Borrowed from Latin digamia (“twice married”), from Ancient Greek διγαμία (digamía, “bigamy”), δίγαμος (dígamos), from δίς (dís, “twice”) + γάμος (gámos, “marriage”). By surface analysis, di- + -gamy.

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Forms

plural: digamies
Singulardigamy
Pluraldigamies

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
deuterogamydigamism

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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