diaper

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A soft cloth or padded garment worn around a baby's bottom to absorb urine and waste; a nappy.

   It's your turn to change the baby's diaper.

2. 2
   verb

   To put a diaper on a baby or young child.

   Diapering a baby is something you learn to do quickly.

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”).

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