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