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Dione
Dione
See also: dione
Translingual
Etymology
Latin Dionē (“mother of Venus”), from Ancient Greek Διώνη (Diṓnē, “mother of Aphrodite”)
Proper noun
Dione f
- 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
- (Greek mythology) Mother of Aphrodite, and possibly the same as the goddess Rhea.
- (astronomy) The fourth largest moon of Saturn.
- A female given name.
Translations
mythology
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moon of Saturn
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Derived terms
Anagrams
Latin
Noun
Diōne
- 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.