Noun: dia
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | dia |
| Plural m | dies |
Sample Sentences
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Avui és un dia normal. És un dia en el qual no res (m')ha passat especialment remarcable. (Today is a normal day. It's a day in which nothing especially remarkable happened (to me).) [2011, Tobies Grimaltos Mascarós, Idees i paraules: Una filosofia de la vida quotidiana, Universitat de València, →ISBN, page 41:]
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En ona llarga durant el dia, a Catalunya, es poden escoltar les emissores Ràdio Montecarlo (RMC), als 216 kHz o Ràdio Alger, als 252 kHz. (In long wave during the day, in Catalonia, you can hear the broadcasters Ràdio Montecarlo (RMC) at 216 kHz or Ràdio Alger, at 252 kHz.) [2011, Cinto Niqui Espinosa, Fonaments i usos de tecnologia audiovisual digital, Editorial UOC, →ISBN, page 362:]
Nouns inflected like dia
xilema,
granuloma,
melodrama,
cobretaula,
panorama,
glioblastoma,
radiograma,
liposarcoma,
zeugma,
estratagema,
setanta,
vuitanta,
ideograma,
anacoreta,
capicausa,
biocida,
colesteatoma,
rentavaixella,
esborratinta,
borgonya, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *dia, from Latin diēs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (“heaven, sky”). Compare Gascon dia and Spanish día. See: Latin Nouns '
diēs', Spanish Nouns '
día'.
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