Noun: dia
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | dia |
| Plural m | dias |
Sample Sentences
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Trazia o Sol o dia celebrado / Em que tres Reis das partes do Oriente […] (The Sun brought the celebrated day / In which three Kings from the Eastern parts […]) [1572, Luís Vaz de Camões, “Canto Quinto [Canto the Fifth]”, in Os Luſiadas [The Lusiads], Lisbon: Casa de Antonio Gõçaluez, page 90v:]
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Mas logo ao outro dia ſeus parceiros / Todos nús, & da cor da eſcura treua […] (But just the other day, his partners / All naked, and of a deep dark complexion […]) [1572, Luís Vaz de Camões, “Canto Quinto [Canto the Fifth]”, in Os Luſiadas [The Lusiads], Lisbon: Casa de Antonio Gõçaluez, page 84v:]
Nouns inflected like dia
egocentrismo,
lantanídeo,
lantanídio,
miligrama,
flash card,
decímetro,
fingimento,
mililitro,
parassuicídio,
algómetro,
ancoradouro,
ancoradoiro,
escândalo,
sereio,
sereno,
sestro,
seguro,
senado,
enlatamento,
Dezembro, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese dia, from Vulgar Latin *dia, first-declension reshaping of Classical Latin diēs, reformed from the accusative diem, from Proto-Italic *djēm, the accusative of *djous (“day, sky”), from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (“heaven, sky”). Distantly related to Deus, Zeus and Jove. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
dia', Old Portuguese Nouns '
dia'.
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