día

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dia"

Asturian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *dia, 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, from Latin diēs ‎(“day”).

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 ‎(dative singular díu)

1. day

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

Declension

Declension of día

Masculine o-stem
Case	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	día	díaL	déL
Vocative	dé	díaL	deu
Accusative	díaN	díaL
Genitive	déL	día	díaN
Dative	díaL	déib
Forms marked L trigger lenition of a following adjective; forms marked N trigger nasalization.

Derived terms

• deacht

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

• “2 día (‘god’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “3 día (‘day’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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Spanish

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Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *dia, from Latin diēs ‎(“day”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws ‎(“heaven, sky”). Akin to Catalan and Portuguese dia, etc. Not related to English day, from Proto-Germanic *dagaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdi.a/
• Rhymes: -ia

Noun

día m ‎(plural días)

1. Period of daylight: day
2. Period of rotation of a planet: day (especially Earth's 24 hours day).

Antonyms

• noche f

Related terms

• cotidiano
• diario
• diurno
• mediodía m
• buenos días