Dia

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dia"

English

Proper noun

Dia

1. A language spoken in Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea.

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Dia terms

Anagrams

• I'da, IAD, Ida., Adi, -iad, I'd-a, Dai, AID, DAI, dai, aid, IDA, Ida

Bavarian

Alternative forms

• Tia (alternative spelling)

Etymology

From Middle High German tür, from Old High German turi, from Proto-West Germanic *dur, from Proto-Germanic *durz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d̥iːɐ̯/
• Homophone: Tier

Noun

Dia f (plural Dian)

1. door (rigid plane on a hinge)
2. door; doorway (passage that can be blocked with such a plane)

German

Etymology

Clipping of Diapositiv

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiː.a/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

Dia n (strong, genitive Dias, plural Dias)

1. slide (transparent image, to be projected to a screen)

Declension

Declension of Dia [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Dia	die	Dias
genitive	eines	des	Dias	der	Dias
dative	einem	dem	Dia	den	Dias
accusative	ein	das	Dia	die	Dias

Further reading

• “Dia” in Duden online
• “Dia” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish Día, from Proto-Celtic *deiwos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʲiə/

Proper noun

Dia m (genitive Dé)

1. God

   Proverb: Tá Dia láidir is máthair mhaith aige. ― God is strong and He has a good mother.

   Go gcuidí Dia leo. ― May God help them.

Declension

Declension of Dia (irregular, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative Dia vocative a Dhia genitive Dé dative Dia forms with the definite article case singular nominative an Dia genitive an Dé dative leis an Dia don Dia

• Alternative vocative singular: a Dhé

Derived terms

• ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam
• bail ó Dhia ort (“God bless you”)
• bóín Dé (“ladybird”)
• bolgach Dé (“smallpox”)
• Dia an Mac (“God the Son”)
• Dia an Spiorad Naomh (“God the Holy Ghost”)
• Dia an tAthair (“God the Father”)
• Dia dhuit (“hello”)
• Dia duit (“hello”)
• Dia linn (“bless you (response to a sneeze)”)
• diamhasla (“blasphemy”)
• diamhaslaigh (“to blaspheme”)
• dias (“deism”)
• go mbeannaí Dia duit (“God bless you”)
• go ngnóthaí Dia duit (“goodbye”)

 

Related terms

• dia (“a god”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of Dia

radical	lenition	eclipsis
Dia	Dhia	nDia

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “Dia”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “Dia”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 237
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “Dia”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “Dia”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdiː.a/, [ˈd̪iːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.a/, [ˈd̪iːä]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Δῖα (Dîa).

Proper noun

Dīa f sg (genitive Dīae); first declension

1. A small island off the coast of Crete
2. A city in Chersonesus

Declension

First-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Dīa
genitive	Dīae
dative	Dīae
accusative	Dīam
ablative	Dīā
vocative	Dīa

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

Dīa

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of Dīon

References

• “Dia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Dia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Dia”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Old Irish

Proper noun

Dia m

1. Alternative spelling of Día

Mutation

Mutation of Dia

radical	lenition	nasalization
Dia	Dia pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	nDia

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish día, from Proto-Celtic *deiwos.

Noun

Dia m (genitive singular Dhè or Dè, plural Diathan)

1. God

Derived terms

• Dia leat!

Mutation

Mutation of Dia

radical	lenition
Dia	Dhia

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 día”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language