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):  - type species; ,  - species

References

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

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English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /daɪˈoʊni/

Proper noun

Dione

1. (Greek mythology) Mother of Aphrodite, and possibly the same as the goddess Rhea.
2. (astronomy) The fourth largest moon of Saturn.
3. A female given name from Ancient Greek.

Derived terms

• Dionean

Translations

mythology

• Greek:

  Ancient: Διώνη f (Diṓnē)

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

moon of Saturn

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

name

• Russian: Дио́на f (Dióna)
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Anagrams

• inode, on-die

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Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Διώνη (Diṓnē).

Proper noun

Dione f

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

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Latin

Proper noun

(deprecated template usage) 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.