diurnus

LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

Rhoticiztion of earlier *diusnus, from diūs (“old nominative of diēs”) +‎ -nus (suffix forming adjectives). Re-analysed as diū (“by day”) +‎ -rnus.

PronunciationEdit

(Classical) IPA^(key): /diˈur.nus/, [d̪iˈʊrnʊs̠]
(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /diˈur.nus/, [d̪iˈurnus]

AdjectiveEdit

diurnus (feminine diurna, neuter diurnum); first/second-declension adjective

of the day
daily

DeclensionEdit

First/second-declension adjective.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	diurnus	diurna	diurnum	diurnī	diurnae	diurna
Genitive	diurnī	diurnae	diurnī	diurnōrum	diurnārum	diurnōrum
Dative	diurnō	diurnae	diurnō	diurnīs
Accusative	diurnum	diurnam	diurnum	diurnōs	diurnās	diurna
Ablative	diurnō	diurnā	diurnō	diurnīs
Vocative	diurne	diurna	diurnum	diurnī	diurnae	diurna

AntonymsEdit

nocturnus

Derived termsEdit

NounEdit

diurnus m (genitive diurnī); second declension

(Medieval Latin) day

DeclensionEdit

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	diurnus	diurnī
Genitive	diurnī	diurnōrum
Dative	diurnō	diurnīs
Accusative	diurnum	diurnōs
Ablative	diurnō	diurnīs
Vocative	diurne	diurnī

DescendantsEdit

Italo-Dalmatian:
- Corsican: ghjornu
- Italian: giorno
- Neapolitan: juorno
- Sicilian: jornu
- Venetian: zorno, giorno
Gallo-Romance:
- Old Francoprovençal: jor, jorn
  - Franco-Provençal: jor
- Old French: jor
  - Bourguignon: jor
  - Franc-Comtois: djoué
  - French: jour
    - → Norwegian Bokmål: jour
  - Norman: jour
  - Walloon: djoû
  , jorn
Occitano-Romance:
- Old Occitan: jorn
  - Catalan: jorn
  - Occitan: jorn
Ibero-Romance:
- Portuguese: jorna
Ido: jorno

→ Franco-Provençal: diurno
→ French: diurne
- → Romanian: diurn
→ Italian: diurno
→ Piedmontese: diurn
→ Portuguese: diurno
→ Spanish: diurno

From *diurnāta:

Asturian: xornada
Friulian: zornade
Istriot: zurnada
Italian: giornata
Neapolitan: jurnata
Franco-Provençal: jorná
Old French: jornee
- English: journey
- French: journée
Sicilian: jurnata
Spanish: jornada
Venetian: zornada, xornada
Welsh: diwrnod

ReferencesEdit

diurnus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
diurnus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
diurnus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
diurnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- travelling day and night: itinera diurna nocturnaque