diadema

See also: Diadema and diademă

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin diadēma, from Ancient Greek διάδημα (diádēma), from διαδέω (diadéō, “to bind around”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [di.əˈðɛ.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [di.əˈðe.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [di.aˈðe.ma]

Noun

diadema f (plural diademes)

1. diadem

Derived terms

• diademat

Further reading

• “diadema” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “diadema”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “diadema” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “diadema” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From Latin diadēma, from Ancient Greek διάδημα (diádēma), from διαδέω (diadéō, “I bind around”).

Noun

diadema m (plural diademas)

1. diadem

Further reading

• “diadema”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

Italian

Etymology

From Latin diadēma, from Ancient Greek διάδημα (diádēma), from διαδέω (diadéō, “I bind around”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.aˈdɛ.ma/, /djaˈdɛ.ma/
• Rhymes: -ɛma
• Hyphenation: di‧a‧dè‧ma, dia‧dè‧ma

Noun

diadema m (plural diademi)

1. diadem
2. tiara

Further reading

• diadema in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• diadema in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Latin

Etymology

From Koine Greek διάδημα (diádēma, “a decorative wreath-shaped headdress”), from Ancient Greek διαδέω (diadéō, “to encircle, bind, wrap around”) + -μα (-ma, result noun suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /di.aˈdeː.ma/, [d̪iäˈd̪eːmä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /di.aˈde.ma/, [d̪iäˈd̪ɛːmä]

Noun

diadēma n (genitive diadēmatis); third declension

1. diadem, crown, tiara; a royal headdress

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	diadēma	diadēmata
Genitive	diadēmatis	diadēmatum
Dative	diadēmatī	diadēmatibus
Accusative	diadēma	diadēmata
Ablative	diadēmate	diadēmatibus
Vocative	diadēma	diadēmata

Descendants

• Catalan: diadema
• English: diadem
• French: diadème
• Galician: diadema
• Italian: diadema
• Portuguese: diadema
• Romanian: diademă
• Sicilian: diadema
• Spanish: diadema

References

• “diadema”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “diadema”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• diadema in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• diadema in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “diadema”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “diadema”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin diadēma, from Ancient Greek διάδημα (diádēma), from διαδέω (diadéō, “to bind around”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.aˈdẽ.mɐ/ [d͡ʒɪ.aˈdẽ.mɐ], (faster pronunciation) /d͡ʒjaˈdẽ.mɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.aˈdẽ.mɐ/ [d͡ʒɪ.aˈdẽ.mɐ], (faster pronunciation) /d͡ʒjaˈdẽ.mɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.aˈde.ma/ [d͡ʒɪ.aˈde.ma], (faster pronunciation) /d͡ʒjaˈde.ma/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /di.ɐˈde.mɐ/ [di.ɐˈðe.mɐ], (faster pronunciation) /djɐˈde.mɐ/ [djɐˈðe.mɐ]

• Rhymes: -emɐ

Noun

diadema m (plural diademas)

1. diadem

Further reading

• “diadema” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [di.aˈdema]

Noun

diadema f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of diademă

Spanish

The Duchess of Angoulême's emerald-and-diamond tiara, made in 1820 and currently in the Louvre

A diadem

A halo

A headband

Etymology

From Latin diadēma, from Ancient Greek διάδημα (diádēma), from διαδέω (diadéō, “to bind around”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /djaˈdema/ [d̪jaˈð̞e.ma]
• Rhymes: -ema
• Syllabification: dia‧de‧ma

Noun

diadema f (plural diademas)

1. diadem, crown

   Synonym: corona

2. tiara (ornamental coronet)

   Synonym: tiara

3. halo, aureole, nimbus

   Synonym: aureola

4. headband

   Synonym: cintillo

Derived terms

• diademado

 

Further reading

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