diana

See also: Diana, Díana, Diâna, Diāna, Diānā, and Dianą

Finnish

Noun

diana

1. essive singular of dia

Anagrams

• aidan, naida

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʲiənˠə/

Adjective

diana pl

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

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
diana	dhiana	ndiana
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Spanish

Etymology

Uncertain. Some sources derive this from día (“day”), via Vulgar Latin *dīa from Latin diēs. 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/ [ˈd̪ja.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: dia‧na

Noun

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

Derived terms

• dar en la diana
• toque de diana

 

Further reading

• “diana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014