diana

diana

1. essive singular of dia

• aidan, naida

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʲiənˠə/

diana pl

1. nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural of dian

Uncertain. Some sources derive this from día (“day”), via Vulgar Latin *dīa from Latin diēs.^[1] However, the sense "reveille" comes almost certainly from the Italian expression battere la Diana (“to beat the reveille”), in which Diana is short for Stella Diana ("Diana star"), a 13th- and 14th-century name for the morning star, possibly not named after the Roman goddess but from an adjectival attribute corresponding to Italian dì.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdjana/ [ˈd̪ja.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: dia‧na

diana f (plural dianas)

1. (also figurative) bullseye (of an archery target)
   • 2020 March 15, “Aislados, solos y con miedo”, in El País‎^[1]:

     Las personas mayores, más de nueve millones en España, asisten estos días a la expansión de un virus que los ha puesto en el centro de la diana.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. archery target
3. reveille (military wakening call)

   Synonym: toque de diana

• “diana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28