diaphane
English
Etymology
Via (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin diaphanus (“diaphanous”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS., from Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS. and Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS..
Pronunciation
Noun
diaphane (countable and uncountable, plural diaphanes)
- Something transparent or diaphanous.
- 1919, Donald F. Goold Johnson, Poems, page 71:
- And for man's life as the clear sparkling wine, Gladding the heart and lifting up the soul From its frail diaphane of petulant flesh, Yet whence doth flow this liquor of delight ?
- 2007, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, The Battle of Evernight: Bitterbynde 3, →ISBN:
- Here, dragonflies of metallic emerald-gold or ruby iridescence froze in midair on almost-invisible wings of diaphane.
- 2011, Valentine Cunningham, Victorian Poetry Now: Poets, Poems and Poetics, →ISBN:
- I moulded with my hands The mobile breasts, the valley; and the waist I touched; and pigments reverently placed Upon their thighs in sapient spots and stains, Beryls and crysolites and diaphanes, And gems whose hot harsh names are never said.
- A woven silk stuff with transparent and colored figures.
- (Aristotelian philosophy) Essence or nature.
- 2004, Didier Eribon, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self, →ISBN, page 168:
- The figure of the diaphane, "this clear crystal nature," is a person so perfect that his simple presence would do more for the world than others manage to do through their actions.
- 2008, John Michael Greer, The Druid Magic Handbook: Ritual Magic Rooted in the Living Earth, →ISBN:
- Thus dreams and daydreams, stray thoughts, and all the other products of imagination are not simply inside one human brain; some are created by the diaphane of the person who experiences them, others come form outside, but all are projected onto the astral light.
- 2010, Greg Urban, Metaphysical Community: The Interplay of the Senses and the Intellect, →ISBN:
- What becomes a topic of conversation, what becomes the subject of publicly circulating discourses, is what lies beyond the senses — the land above the sky, the world of the dead, the other side of the diaphane.
French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin diaphanus (“diaphanous”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS., from Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS. and Lua error in Module:parameters at line 331: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "polytonic" is not valid. See WT:LOS..
Pronunciation
Adjective
diaphane (plural diaphanes)
- (physics or formal) diaphanous, translucent
- (of a person or their physical traits) delicate, fragile
- Elle avait des mains diaphanes.
- She had delicate hands.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “diaphane”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
Adjective
diaphane
- inflection of diaphan:
Latin
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) diaphane
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