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Finnish
Noun
diana
- essive singular of dia
Anagrams
Irish
Pronunciation
Adjective
diana pl
- nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural of dian
Mutation
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dhiana
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ndiana
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Spanish
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdjana/
- Rhymes: -ana
- Syllabification: dia‧na
Noun
diana f (plural dianas)
- (also figurative) bullseye (of an archery target)
2020 March 15, “Aislados, solos y con miedo”, in El País: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)
- archery target
- reveille (military wakening call)
- Synonym: toque de diana
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