different between sanitarynapkin vs diaper

English

Etymology

From Middle English dyaper, from Old French dyapre, diaspre, from Medieval Latin diaspra, diasprum from Byzantine Greek ???????? (díaspros, adj), from ???- (dia-, “across”) + ?????? (áspros, “white”). Doublet of jasper.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?da?(?)p?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?da?(?)p?/
• Rhymes: -a?p?(?), -a??p?(?)
• Hyphenation: di?a?per, dia?per

Noun

diaper (countable and uncountable, plural diapers)

1. A textile fabric having a diamond-shaped pattern formed by alternating directions of thread.
2. A towel or napkin made from such fabric.
3. (Canada, US) An absorbent garment worn by a baby, by a young child not yet toilet trained, or by an adult who is incontinent; a nappy.
4. The diamond pattern associated with diaper textiles.
5. Surface decoration of any sort which consists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.

Synonyms

• (absorbent garment): nappy (British, Australia); napkin (British, archaic); napkin (South African)

Derived terms

• diaperhood
• diaperism
• diaperwork
• incontinence diaper

Translations

Verb

diaper (third-person singular simple present diapers, present participle diapering, simple past and past participle diapered)

1. To put diapers on someone.
   • 2019, Michael Bent, Rosalie Bent, Understanding Adult Babies: Their Psychology and Lifestyles

     I diaper myself or she helps Diaper me and sometimes I get to wet them, she knows I like that. And she whispers in my ear that "baby wants to make a cummie in his Diapers […]

   Diapering a baby is something you have to learn fast.

2. To draw flowers or figures, as upon cloth.
   • 1622, Henry Peacham (Jr.), The Compleat Gentleman

     If you diaper upon folds, let your work be broken.

Translations

Anagrams

• Piedra, aperid, paired, pardie, piedra, repaid

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French dyapre.

Noun

diaper

1. Alternative form of dyaper

Etymology 2

From Old French diaprer.

Verb

diaper

1. Alternative form of dyapren