Dioscuri

From Latin Dioscūrī, from Ancient Greek Διόσκουροι (Dióskouroi, “the youths of Zeus”).

Dioscuri pl

1. (Greek mythology) The twin brothers Castor and Pollux together.
   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter III, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book IV (States-General):

     Or, alas, might not one rather attribute it to Diana in the shape of Hunger? To some twin Dioscuri, OPPRESSION and REVENGE; so often seen in the battles of men?

   • 1879, James Anthony Froude, chapter XI, in Cæsar: A Sketch, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 108:

     Cæsar, either more ambitious or less confident in his services, raised a new and costly row of columns in front of the Capitol. He built a temple to the Dioscuri, and he charmed the populace with a show of gladiators unusually extensive.

• Castor and Pollux on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• sciuroid

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Δῐόσκορος (Dĭóskoros).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [di.ɔsˈkuː.riː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪i.osˈkuː.ri]

Dioscūrī m pl (genitive Dioscūrōrum); second declension

1. (New Latin) alternative form of Dioscori
   • 1841, Karl Mueller, Theodor Mueller, Victor Langlois, Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum‎^[1], Parisiis Editore Ambrosio Firmin Didot:

     et quum Theseum ipsum non deprehenderent Dioscuri

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Second-declension noun, plural only.

• English: Dioscuri

• Egidio Forcellini, Jacopo Facciolati, James Bailey (1828) Totius Latinitatis lexicon‎^[2], Baldwin et Cradock, page 922