## Meanings
1. A soft cloth or padded garment worn around a baby's bottom to absorb urine and waste; a nappy.
2. To put a diaper on a baby or young child.

## Examples
- It's your turn to change the baby's diaper.
- Diapering a baby is something you learn to do quickly.

## Synonyms
- diap
- diapee
- diapie
- diapy
- diddy
- didee
- didie
- didy
- dip
- dipe
- hippins
- napkin

## Derived Forms
- bediaper
- diaper-baby
- diaper-brain
- diaper-hump
- diaper-slave
- diaper-whore
- diaperbutt
- diaperee
- diaperer
- diaperful
- diaperfur
- diaperhead

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: dyaper
- Root: diapre
- Root: diaspra
- Root: δίασπρος

## Etymology
From Middle English dyaper, diapre, dyapre, from Old French diapre, dyapre, a variant of dyaspre, diaspre (“ornamental silk cloth embellished with floral or decorative geometrical patterns”), from Medieval Latin diaspra, diasprum (“a type of rich, valuable silken cloth”), probably from Byzantine Greek δίασπρος (díaspros, “very white; pure white”, adjective), from δια- (dia-, “across”) + ἄσπρος (áspros, “white”).

## AI Etymology
diaper comes from Middle English dyaper, diapre, dyapre, from Old French diapre, dyapre, a variant of dyaspre, diaspre (“ornamental silk cloth embellished with floral or decorative geometrical patterns”), from Medieval Latin diaspra, diasprum (“a type of rich, valuable silken cloth”), probably from Byzantine Greek δίασπρος (díaspros, “very white; pure white”, adjective), from δια- (dia-, “across”) + ἄσπρος (áspros, “white”). Current senses include A soft cloth or padded garment worn around a baby's bottom to absorb urine and waste; a nappy and to put a diaper on a baby or young child. English relatives and later formations include bediaper, diaper-baby, diaper-brain.

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