English

Proper noun

Dia

1. A language spoken in Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea.

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Dia terms

German

Etymology

Clipping of Diapositiv

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiː.a/

Noun

Dia n ‎(genitive Dias, plural Dias)

1. slide (transparent image, to be projected to a screen)

Declension

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish día, from Proto-Celtic *dēwos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʲiə/

Proper noun

Dia m ‎(genitive Dé)

1. God

   Tá Dia láidir is máthair mhaith aige.‎

   God is strong and He has a good mother. (proverb)

Declension

Derived terms

• bail ó Dhia ort ‎(“God bless you”)
• Dia duit; Dia dhuit ‎(“hello”)
• Dia linn ‎(“bless you”) (response to a sneeze)
• go mbeannaí Dia duit ‎(“God bless you”)
• go ngnóthaí Dia duit ‎(“goodbye”)

Related terms

• dia ‎(“a god”)

Mutation

References

• “2 día” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “Dia” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• Franz Nikolaus Finck, 1899, Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, 81.
• "Dia" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Latin

Noun

Dīa

1. inflection of Dīon:
   1. nominative plural
   2. accusative plural
   3. vocative plural

References

• Dia in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish día, from Proto-Celtic *dēwos.

Noun

Dia m ‎(genitive singular Dè, plural Diathan)

1. God

Derived terms

• Dia leat!

Catalan

Noun

dia m ‎(plural dies)

1. day

Derived terms

• migdia

See also

• (days of the week) dia de la setmana; dilluns, dimarts, dimecres, dijous, divendres, dissabte, diumenge ^{(Category: ca:Days of the week)}

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdi.aː/

Etymology

Clipping of diapositief.

Noun

dia m ‎(plural dia's, diminutive diaatje n)

1. (photography) slide

Esperanto

Etymology

dio +‎ -a

Adjective

dia ‎(accusative singular dian, plural diaj, accusative plural diajn)

1. godly, of or pertaining to God or gods, divine

Finnish

Etymology

Shortened from diapositiivi, probably after the international example.

Noun

dia

1. (photography) slide

Declension

Synonyms

• (slide): diakuva, kuultokuva (dated)

See also

• nega
• negatiivi

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dja/

Interjection

dia

1. yah!, cry to make (a) working animal(s) etc. advance or turn left

Antonyms

• hue

Hungarian

Etymology

Shortened from diapozitív ‎(“diapositive”), after the German Diapositiv.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdiʲɒ]
• Hyphenation: dia

Noun

dia ‎(plural diák)

1. slide (used with a projector for projecting images)

Declension

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay dia, cognate with ia, -nya, from Proto-Malayic *ia, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(si-)ia, from Proto-Austronesian *(si-)ia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dia/

Pronoun

dia

1. he

   Dia sedang kelaparan.‎

   He is starving now.

2. she

   Dia **** musik pop.‎

   She loves pop music.

Synonyms

• ia
• beliau

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʲiə/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish día ‎(“god”), from Proto-Celtic *dēwos (compare Welsh duw), from Proto-Indo-European *deywós (compare Sanskrit देव ‎(deva), Latin deus, Old English Tīw ‎(“Germanic god of heroic glory”)).

Noun

dia m ‎(genitive singular dé, nominative plural déithe)

1. a god

Declension

• Archaic nominative plural: dée
• Alternative genitive plural: dia
• Archaic dative plural: déibh

Derived terms

• aindia m ‎(“false god”)

Related terms

• Dia ‎(“God”) (as a proper noun)

Etymology 2

From Old Irish día ‎(“day”), from Proto-Celtic *dīyos (compare Welsh dydd), from Proto-Indo-European *dyew-.

Noun

dia

1. (literary) day

Derived terms

• Dé ‎(“on (a day of the week)”)
• dialann ‎(“diary”)

Mutation

References

• “2 día (‘God’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “3 día (‘day’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “dia” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• "dia" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Italian

Etymology 1

Adjective

dia f

1. feminine singular of dio

Etymology 2

Verb

dia

1. inflection of dare:
   1. first-person singular present subjunctive
   2. second-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular present subjunctive
   4. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• adì, dai, Ida

Latin

Adjective

dia

1. inflection of dius:
   1. nominative feminine singular
   2. nominative neuter plural
   3. accusative neuter plural
   4. vocative feminine singular
   5. vocative neuter plural

diā

1. ablative feminine singular of dius

Malay

Etymology

Cognate with ia, -nya, from Proto-Malayic *ia, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(si-)ia, from Proto-Austronesian *(si-)ia.

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /diə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /dia/
• Rhymes: -iə, -jə, -ə

Pronoun

dia

1. he, she

See also

Mandarin

Romanization

dia

1. Nonstandard spelling of diǎ.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Old Provençal

Alternative forms

• di m

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *dia, from Latin dīēs ‎(“day”).

Noun

dia m, f

1. day (period of 24 hours)

Descendants

• Catalan: dia

References

• (fr)(de) dīes in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (Walther von Wartburg, 2002)

Plautdietsch

Adjective

dia

1. expensive, dear

Pom

Noun

dia

1. water

References

• The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum, New Guinea (1961)

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese dia ‎(“day”), from Vulgar Latin *dia, from Latin diēs ‎(“day”), reformed from the accusative diem, from Proto-Italic *djēm, the accusative of *djous ‎(“day, sky”), from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws ‎(“heaven, sky”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.ɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒi.a/
• (Carioca) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒi.ɐ/
• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.ɐ/
• (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.a/

Noun

dia m (plural dias)

1. day (period between sunrise and sunset)
   • 1572, Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas, 5th canto:

     Trazia o Sol o dia celebrado / Em que tres Reis das partes do Oriente,

     The Sun brought the celebrated day / In which three Kings from the East,

2. day (period from midnight to the following midnight)
3. day (period of 24 hours)
   • 1572, Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas, 5th canto:

     Mas logo ao outro dia ſeus parceiros / Todos nús, & da cor da eſcura treua,

     But just the other day his partners / All naked, & coloured as the dark darkness,

4. (astronomy) day (rotational period of a planet)
5. (in phrases) day (date celebrating a particular thing, usually an event, profession or person)

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see Citations:dia.

Antonyms

• (period of daylight): noite ‎(“night”)

Derived terms

• adiar
• dia-a-dia

Related terms

• diário
• diurno
• cotidiano

Adverb

dia (not comparable)

1. occurring on the specified day of the month

   O evento ocorreu dia primeiro de fevereiro.‎

   The event occurred February first.

Usage notes

Used the ordinal primeiro ‎(“first”) for day 1 and a cardinal for 2–31

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see Citations:dia.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish día ‎(“god”), from Proto-Celtic *dēwos (compare Welsh duw), from Proto-Indo-European *deywós (compare Sanskrit देव ‎(deva), Latin deus, Old English Tīw ‎(“Germanic god of heroic glory”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʲia/

Noun

dia m ‎(genitive singular dè, plural diathan)

1. god, deity

Derived terms

• ban-dia

References

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
• “2 día” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Spanish

Noun

dia m ‎(plural dias)

1. Misspelling of día.
2. Obsolete spelling of día

Tolai

Alternative forms

• diat (when not preceding a verb)

Pronoun

dia

1. they (many), them (many) (third-person plural pronoun)

Declension

Tswana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdi.a/

Verb

go dia

1. to delay