English
Etymology
Late Latin diptycha, plural < AGr., neuter plural of δί����ο� (diptychos, folded, doubled)< δι di- -����ο� -ptychos (akin to Greek ����ή (ptyche, fold, layer)
Noun
en-noun
- A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within.
- art A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets, usually connected by hinges.
- A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of the church.
- A catalogue of saints.
- Artistically-wrought tablets distributed by consul|consuls, etc. of the later Roman Empire to commemorate their tenure of office; hence transferred to a list of magistrates
- a. a literary work consisting of two contrasting parts (as a narrative telling the same story from two opposing points of view) "a diptych, a pastoral in which the author narrates the birth of Christ ... first as it has impressed the rich countryman Asveer, then as it has been seen by the skeptic Nicodemus" -- François Closset b. any work made up of two matching parts treating complementary or contrasting pictorial phases of one general topic "the first volume of a diptych Vegetation and Flora of the Sonoran Desert" -- F.E. Egler
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