Dione

See also: dione

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): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda - subphylum; Insecta - class; Pterygota - subclass; Neoptera - infraclass; 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

References

• Dione (butterfly) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Dione on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Dione on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daɪˈoʊni/

Proper noun

Dione (countable and uncountable, plural Diones)

1. (Greek mythology) Mother of Aphrodite, and possibly the same as the goddess Rhea.
2. (astronomy) A moon in Jupiter system, Solar System; The fourth largest moon of Saturn.
3. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
4. A surname from French

Derived terms

• Dionean

 

Translations

mythology

• Armenian: Դիոնե (hy) (Dione)
• Danish: Dione
• Finnish: Dione
• French: Dioné (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• Greek:

  Ancient: Διώνη f (Diṓnē)

• Inuktitut: ᑎᐆᓂ (tiooni)
• Italian: Dione f
• Russian: Дио́на f (Dióna)

moon of Saturn

• Finnish: Dione
• French: Dioné (fr) f
• German: Dione f
• Italian: Dione m
• Russian: Дио́на f (Dióna)
• Spanish: Dione

name

• Russian: Дио́на f (Dióna)

See also

• Deeon
• Deion
• Deon
• Deyon
• Dion
• Dionne
• Dyon

 

Anagrams

• Denio, Edoni, inode, on-die

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Διώνη (Diṓnē).

Proper noun

Dione f

1. (Greek mythology) Dione
2. (astronomy) a moon of Saturn

Anagrams

• Deino

Latin

Proper noun

Diōne

1. ablative singular of Diōn

References

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