English Online Dictionary. What means diana? What does diana mean?
Finnish
Noun
diana
- essive singular of dia
Anagrams
- aidan, naida
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdʲiənˠə/
Adjective
diana pl
- nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural of dian
Mutation
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)
- (also figurative) bullseye (of an archery target)
- archery target
- reveille (military wakening call)
- Synonym: toque de diana
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- “diana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28