Translingual

Etymology

Latin Dionē ‎(“mother of Venus”), from Ancient Greek Διώνη ‎(Diṓnē, “mother of Aphrodite”)

Proper noun

Dione f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Nymphalidae – certain butterflies.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Insecta  class; Dicondylia - clade; Pterygota - subclass; Metapterygota - clade; Neoptera - infraclass; Eumetabola, Endopterygota - clades; Panorpida - superorder; Amphiesmenoptera - clade; Lepidoptera - order; Glossata - suborder; Heteroneura - infraorder; Ditrysia - division; Cossina - section; Bombycina - subsection; Papilionoidea - superfamily; Papilioniformes - series; Nymphalidae - family; Heliconiinae - subfamily; Heliconiini - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Dione juno - type species; Dione glycera, Dione moneta - species

English

Proper noun

Dione

1. (Greek mythology) Mother of Aphrodite, and possibly the same as the goddess Rhea.
2. (astronomy) The fourth largest moon of Saturn.
3. A female given name.

Translations

Derived terms

• Dionean

Anagrams

• inode, on-die

Latin

Noun

Diōne

1. ablative singular of Diōn

References

• Dione in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “Dione”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

English

Noun

dione ‎(plural diones)

1. (organic chemistry, sometimes in combination) diketone

Anagrams

• inode, on-die