1a. A folded piece of absorbent material, such as paper or cloth, that is placed between a baby's legs and fastened at the waist to contain excretions. b. A similar piece of material, worn by incontinent adults. 2a. A white cotton or linen fabric patterned with small, duplicative diamond-shaped figures. b. A piece of such cloth. c. Such a pattern.
TRANSITIVE VERB:
Inflected forms: di·a·pered, di·a·per·ing, di·a·pers 1. To put a diaper on. 2. To weave or decorate in a diamond-shaped pattern.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, a patterned fabric, from Old French diapre, diaspre, from Medieval Latin diasprum, a white silken material, from Medieval Greek diaspros, pure white : dia-, intensive pref.; see dia– + aspros, white (probably from Latin asper, rough).
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