Dia

Dia

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

• Wiktionary's coverage of Dia terms

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

• Tia (alternative spelling)

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

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

Dia f (plural Dian)

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

Clipping of Diapositiv

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiː.a/

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Dia n (strong, genitive Dias, plural Dias)

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

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

From Old Irish Día,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *deiwos.

• IPA^(key): /dʲiə/^[2][3]

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.

• Alternative vocative singular: a Dhé

• dia (“a god”)

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
Dia	Dhia	nDia
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

• 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

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

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Δῖα (Dîa).

Dīa f sg (genitive Dīae); first declension

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

First-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Dīa
Genitive	Dīae
Dative	Dīae
Accusative	Dīam
Ablative	Dīā
Vocative	Dīa

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Dīa

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of Dīon

• “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

Dia m

1. Alternative spelling of Día

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
Dia	Dia pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	nDia
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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

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

1. God

• Dia leat!

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
Dia	Dhia
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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