día

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dia"

Asturian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *dia (reanalyzed as a 1st declension noun), from Latin diēs (“day”).

Noun

día m (plural díes)

1. day

See also

• nueche
• xornada

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese dia, from Vulgar Latin *dia (reanalyzed as a 1st declension noun), from Latin diēs (“day”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈd̪iɐ]

Noun

día m (plural días)

1. day (24 hours)
2. period of light, when the sun is above the horizon

Antonyms

• (period of light): noite

Related terms

• diario

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Ladino

Alternative forms

• diya

Noun

día m (Latin spelling)

1. day

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʲiːa̯/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *dīyos (compare Welsh dydd), from Proto-Indo-European *dyew-. Cognate with Latin diēs.

Noun

día ?

1. day

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• lá

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *dēwos (compare Welsh duw), from Proto-Indo-European *deywós (compare Sanskrit देव (devá), Latin deus, Old English Tīw (“Germanic god of heroic glory”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dyew- (“to shine”).

Noun

día m (genitive dé, nominative plural dé)

1. god
   • c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 162a3

     In tan labratar ind ḟilid a persin inna ṅdea, do·gniat primam ⁊ secundam in illis.

     When the poets speak in the person of the gods, they make a first and second [person] in them.

Declension

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	día	díaL	déL
Vocative	dé	díaL	deuH
Accusative	díaN	díaL	deuH
Genitive	déL	día	díaN, dea
Dative	díaL	déib	déib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• deacht
• déod(a)e
• díade

 

Descendants

• Irish: dia
• Manx: jee
• Scottish Gaelic: dia

Mutation

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

References

• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “2 día (‘god’)”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “3 día (‘day’)”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• dia (obsolete)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *dīa, from Latin diēs (“day”) (reanalyzed as a 1st declension noun), back-formed from the accusative diem (whose vowel was once long), from Proto-Italic *djēm, the accusative of *djous, from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (“heaven, sky”). Akin to Catalan and Portuguese dia, etc. Not etymologically related to English day, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz. Compare English dial.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdia/, [ˈd̪ia]
• Rhymes: -ia

Noun

día m (plural días)

1. day (any period of 24 hours)
2. day (a period from midnight to the following midnight)
3. day (rotational period of a planet)
4. day (the part of a day period which one spends at work, school, etc.)

   Synonym: jornada

5. day, daytime (the part of the day between sunrise and sunset)

   Antonym: noche

Derived terms

• a día de hoy
• adiar
• al día
• a plena luz del día
• buenos días
• día a día
• día sí, día también
• día sí y día también
• día y noche
• el día que las vacas vuelen
• el otro día
• el pan nuestro de cada día
• estar en sus días
• hoy día
• hoy en día
• mañana será otro día
• mediodía
• orden del día
• un día de estos
• un día es un día
• un día más un día menos
• un día sí y otro también

 

Related terms

• cotidiano
• diario
• diurno

Further reading

• “día” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.