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Webster 1913 Edition
Diurna
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Di-ur′na
,Noun.
pl.
[NL., fr. L.
diurnus
belonging to the day.] (Zool.)
A division of Lepidoptera, including the butterflies; – so called because they fly only in the daytime.
Definition 2024
diurna
diurna
Latin
Adjective
diurna
- inflection of diurnus:
- feminine nominative singular
- feminine vocative singular
- neuter nominative singular
- neuter accusative singular
- neuter vocative singular
Adjective
diurnā
- feminine ablative singular of diurnus
References
- diurna in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “diurna”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.