Dia

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dia"

English

Proper noun

Dia

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Dia terms

Anagrams

• -iad, AID, Adi, Dai, I'da, IAD, Ida, aid, dai

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German

Etymology

Clipping of Diapositiv

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiː.a/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

Dia n (genitive Dias, plural Dias)

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

Further reading

• “Dia” in Duden online

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Irish

Etymology

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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

Declension of Dia

Irregular

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative Dia Vocative a Dhia Genitive Dé Dative Dia

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an Dia Genitive an Dé Dative leis an Dia don Dia

• Alternative vocative singular: Dé

Derived terms

• bail ó Dhia ort (“God bless you”)
• bolgach Dé (“smallpox”)
• Dia an Mac (“God the Son”)
• Dia an Spiorad Naomh (“God the Holy Ghost”)
• Dia an tAthair (“God the Father”)
• 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

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
Dia	Dhia	nDia
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Template:R:ga:Dinneen

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “Dia”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 día”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 81
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “Dia”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “Dia”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdiː.a/, [ˈd̪iːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.a/, [ˈd̪iːä]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Δῖα (Dîa).

Proper noun

Dīa f sg (genitive Dīae); first declension

1. A small island off the coast of Crete
2. A city in Chersonesus

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Dīa
Genitive	Dīae
Dative	Dīae
Accusative	Dīam
Ablative	Dīā
Vocative	Dīa

Etymology 2

Noun

(deprecated template usage) Dīa

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of Dīon

References

• “Dia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Dia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Dia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

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Old Irish

Proper noun

Dia m

1. Alternative spelling of Día

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
Dia	Dia pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	nDia
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

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

Noun

Dia m (genitive singular Dè, plural Diathan)

1. God

Derived terms

• Dia leat!

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
Dia	Dhia
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 día”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language