diptych
(noun) a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on two panels (usually hinged like a book)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
diptych (plural diptyches)
A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within.
(arts) 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 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)
• b. any work made up of two matching parts treating complementary or contrasting pictorial phases of one general topic
• (art): polyptych
Source: Wiktionary
Dip"tych, n. Etym: [L. diptycha, pl., fr. Gr.
1. Anything consisting of two leaves. Especially: (a) (Roman Antiq.) A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within. (b) A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets connected by hinges. See Triptych.
2. 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 April 2025
(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
