Dione
See also: dione
TranslingualEdit
EtymologyEdit
Latin Dionē (“mother of Venus”), from Ancient Greek Διώνη (Diṓnē, “mother of Aphrodite”)
Proper nounEdit
Dione f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Nymphalidae – certain butterflies.
HypernymsEdit
- (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa - superphylum; Arthropoda - phylum; Hexapoda - subphylum; Insecta - class; Pterygota - subclass; Neoptera - infraclass; Lepidoptera - order; Glossata - suborder; Heteroneura - infraorder; Ditrysia - division; Cossina - section; Bombycina - subsection; Papilionoidea - superfamily; Papilioniformes - series; Nymphalidae - family; Heliconiinae - subfamily; Heliconiini - tribe
HyponymsEdit
- (genus): Dione juno - type species; Dione glycera, Dione moneta - species
ReferencesEdit
Dione (butterfly) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Dione on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Dione on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin Dionē (“mother of Venus”), from Ancient Greek Διώνη (Diṓnē, “mother of Aphrodite”).
PronunciationEdit
Proper nounEdit
Dione (countable and uncountable, plural Diones)
- (Greek mythology) Mother of Aphrodite, and possibly the same as the goddess Rhea.
- (astronomy) A moon in Jupiter system, Solar Ssytem; The fourth largest moon of Saturn.
- A female given name from Ancient Greek.
- A surname from French
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
mythology
moon of Saturn
name
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See alsoEdit
AnagramsEdit
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ancient Greek Διώνη (Diṓnē).
Proper nounEdit
Dione f
AnagramsEdit
LatinEdit
Proper nounEdit
Diōne
ReferencesEdit
- “Dione”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Dione in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette