dies

See also: Dies, díes, and dies.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daɪz/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: dyes
• Rhymes: -aɪz

Verb

dies

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of die

Noun

dies

1. plural of die (when used in the sense of a pattern / of obsolete spelling of dye)

Anagrams

• Edis, Desi, eids, deis, ESDI, DESI, Ides, IEDs, SEID, EIDs, -side, side, sied, IDEs, ides, Eids, Dise, desi, Side

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈdi.əs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈdi.es]

Noun

dies

1. plural of dia

German

Alternative forms

• dis, diess, dieß, diß (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdiːs]

• Audio:

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• Audio (Berlin):

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• Rhymes: -iːs

Pronoun

dies

1. Alternative form of dieses

Usage notes

• In the nominative and accusative neuter, the forms dieses and dies are in general interchangeable, but there is a tendency to prefer one or the other in the following situations:

• In adjectival usage, dieses is generally preferred to dies. So dieses Haus ("this house") is more common than the also correct and synonymic dies Haus.
• In substantival usage, dieses is used to refer to a previously used neuter noun:

Unser Unternehmen sollte das Gebäude verkaufen. Wir können dieses nicht mehr gebrauchen.

Our company should sell the building. We cannot make use of it anymore.

• Dies is used to refer to a preceding context or phrase:

Unser Unternehmen sollte das Gebäude verkaufen. Dies würde uns viel Geld einbringen.

Our company should sell the building. This would earn us a lot of money.

• Dies is also used to refer to something the speaker perceives with the senses (exophoric use, deixis):

Sieh dir dies mal an! – Have a look at this! (e.g. a newspaper article)

Dies sind meine Kinder. – These are my children. (regular use of the neuter singular with a copula verb)

• The above habits are mainly true of formal speech and writing. Colloquially, the shorter dies is often preferred, but the pronouns das and es are even more common.

Further reading

• “dies” in Duden online
• “dies” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Ilocano

Alternative forms

• diez — obsolete, abecedario or Spanish spelling
• diyes, dyes — common, abakada or Tagalog spelling

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish diez.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdjes/ [ˈd͡ʒes]
• IPA^(key): /ˈdijes/ [ˈdi.jes]
• Hyphenation: di‧es

Numeral

dies

1. ten

   Synonyms: sangapulo, pullo

Latin

Etymology

Back-formed from the accusative diem (at a time when the vowel was still long), from Proto-Italic *djēm, the accusative of *djous, from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (“heaven, sky”). The original nominative survives as *diūs in two fossilised phrases: mē diūs fidius (an interjection) and nū diūs tertius (“day before yesterday”, literally “now (is) the third day”). The d in diēs is a puzzle with some suggesting dialect borrowing and others referring to an etymon *diyew- via Lindeman's Law. But note the possible Proto-Italic allophony between *-CjV- and *-CiV-, which may be the cause for this divergence (See WT:AITC).

Cognate with Ancient Greek Ζήν (Zḗn), Old Armenian տիւ (tiw, “daytime”), Old Irish día, Welsh dydd, Polish dzień, but not English day, which is a false cognate. The Italic stem was also the source of Iovis, the genitive of Iuppiter and was generally interchangeable with it in earlier times, still shown by the analogical formation Diēspiter.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.eːs/, [ˈd̪ieːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.es/, [ˈd̪iːes]

Noun

diēs m or f (genitive diēī); fifth declension

1. A day, particularly:
   1. A solar or sidereal day of about 24 hours, especially (historical) Roman dates reckoned from one midnight to the next.

      in dies ― day by day

      sub diem ― at daybreak

      ante diem III idus Ianuarias ― the third day before the January ides

      • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Exodus.16.26:

        Sex diēbus colligite in diē autem septimō sabbatum est Dominō idcircō nōn inveniētur.

        Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, in it there shall be none.

      • 1564, Elizabeth I of England, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Speech to the University, at the Conclusion of her Entertainment in St. Mary's Church 9:

        Haec tamen vulgaris sententia me aliquantulum recreavit, quae etsi non auferre, tamen minuere possit dolorem meum, quae quidem sententia haec est, Romam uno die non fuisse conditam.

        But this common saying has given me a certain amount of comfort – a saying which cannot take away, but can at least lessen, the grief that I feel; and the saying is, that Rome was not built in one day.

   2. Daytime: a period of light between sunrise and sunset.

      prima diei hora ― the first hour of the day

   3. (often in the feminine) A set day: a date, an appointment.

Usage notes

• Dates in the Roman calendar were reckoned according to the calends (kalendae), the nones (nōnae), and the ides (īdūs). The calends of every month was its first day; the nones and ides of most months were their 5th and 13th days; and the nones and ides of the four original 31-day months—Mārtius, Maius, Quīntīlis or Iūlius, and Octōber—were two days later. January 1st was thus kalendae Iānuāriae or Iānuāriī. The day preceding any of these three principal days was called its eve (prīdiē). January 12th was thus prīdiē īdūs Iānuāriās or Iānuāriī (pr. Id. Ian.). All other days of the month were expressed by counting inclusively forward to the next of these three principal days and, in early Latin, this was expressed in the ablative. January 11th was thus diē tertiō ante īdūs Iānuāriās or Iānuāriī (III Id. Ian.). By the time of classical Latin, however, the ante had moved to the beginning of the expression and it became an accusative absolute: ante diem tertium īdūs Iānuāriās or Iānuāriī (a. d. III Id. Ian.). In this form, the date functioned as a single indeclinable noun and could serve as the object of prepositions such as ex and in.
• Unlike most fifth-declension nouns, diēs is not exclusively feminine. It was typically masculine, particularly in the plural. It appears as a feminine noun when being personified as a goddess, in some specific dates, in reference to the passing of time, and occasionally in other contexts.

Declension

Fifth-declension noun, with locative.

	singular	plural
nominative	diēs	diēs
genitive	diēī	diērum
dative	diēī	diēbus
accusative	diem	diēs
ablative	diē	diēbus
vocative	diēs	diēs
locative	diē	diēbus

Locative used in Old Latin constructions such as crāstinī diē (“tomorrow”, literally “on tomorrow's day”).

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “daytime”): nox

Derived terms

• a.d.
• carpe diem
• diārium
• diēcula
• diēs Dominicus
• diēs fēstus
• diēs hebdomadis
• diēs intercalārius
• diēs Iovis
• Diēs Īrae
• diēs Lūnae
• diēs Mārtis
• diēs Mercuriī
• diēs Sabbatī
• diēs Sāturnī
• diēs Sōlis
• diēs Veneris
• Hērōdis diēs
• hodiē
• merīdiēs
• perendiē
• postrīdiē
• prīdiē
• sēsquidiēs
• sine die

 

Related terms

• diū
• diurnus
• nū̆diū̆s
• biduus
• trīduum
• quadriduum

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: dzuã
  • Istro-Romanian: zi
  • Megleno-Romanian: zuuă
  • Romanian: zi
• Dalmatian:
  • dai
• Italo-Romance:
  • Old Italian: die
    • Italian: dì (“daytime”)
• North Italian:
  • Istriot: dèi
  • Lombard: dì
  • Piedmontese: di
  • Venetan: dì
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: dì
  • Ladin: dì
  • Romansch: di, gi
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: di
  • Old French: di
    • ⇒ French: midi, toudis, jadis
  • Picard: di
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Old Occitan: di
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: dia
    • Galician: día
    • Portuguese: dia
  • Mirandese: die
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: die (Logudorese), dì (Campidanese)
• Vulgar Latin: *dia (see there for further descendants)

References

• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “dies”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 206
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “dīes”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 71

Further reading

• “dies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dies”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dies 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)
• dies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a day's journey: iter unius diei or simply diei
    
  • to give some one a few days for reflection: paucorum dierum spatium ad deliberandum dare
    
  • in our time; in our days: his temporibus, nostra (hac) aetate, nostra memoria, his (not nostris) diebus
    
  • year by year; day by day: singulis annis, diebus
    
  • the intercalary year (month, day): annus (mensis, dies) intercalaris
    
  • when it is growing dusk; towards evening: die, caelo vesperascente
    
  • the day is already far advanced: multus dies or multa lux est
    
  • while it is still night, day: de nocte, de die
    
  • the succession of day and night: vicissitudines dierum noctiumque
    
  • night and day: noctes diesque, noctes et dies, et dies et noctes, dies noctesque, diem noctemque
    
  • from day to day: in dies (singulos)
    
  • to live from day to day: in diem vivere
    
  • every other day: alternis diebus
    
  • four successive days: quattuor dies continui
    
  • one or two days: unus et alter dies
    
  • one, two, several days had passed, intervened: dies unus, alter, plures intercesserant
    
  • to adjourn, delay: diem proferre (Att. 13. 14)
    
  • on the day after, which was September 5th: postridie qui fuit dies Non. Sept. (Nonarum Septembrium) (Att. 4. 1. 5)
    
  • to-day the 5th of September; tomorrow September the 5th: hodie qui est dies Non. Sept.; cras qui dies futurus est Non. Sept.
    
  • yesterday, to-day, tomorrow: dies hesternus, hodiernus, crastinus
    
  • to appoint a date for an interview: diem dicere colloquio
    
  • at the appointed time: ad diem constitutam
    
  • to live to see the day when..: diem videre, cum...
    
  • time will assuage his grief: dies dolorem mitigabit
    
  • to depart this life: mortem (diem supremum) obire
    
  • on one's last day: supremo vitae die
    
  • to put off from one day to another: diem ex die ducere, differre
    
  • the date: dies (fem. in this sense)
    
  • immorality is daily gaining ground: mores in dies magis labuntur (also with ad, e.g. ad mollitiem)
    
  • to keep, celebrate a festival: diem festum agere (of an individual)
    
  • to keep, celebrate a festival: diem festum celebrare (of a larger number)
    
  • to decree a public thanksgiving for fifteen days: supplicationem quindecim dierum decernere (Phil. 14. 14. 37)
    
  • to pass the whole day in discussion: dicendi mora diem extrahere, eximere, tollere
    
  • to summon some one to appear on a given day; to accuse a person: diem dicere alicui
    
  • to fix a day for the engagement: diem pugnae constituere (B. G. 3. 24)
    
• “dies”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “dies”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
• dies in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication

Latvian

Verb

dies

1. third-person singular/plural future indicative of diet

Middle Dutch

Adverb

dies

1. therefore, because of that, for that reason

Conjunction

dies

1. until
2. because

Determiner

dies

1. masculine/neuter genitive singular of die

Contraction

dies

1. Contraction of die es.

Northern Sami

Determiner

dies

1. locative singular of diet

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

dies

1. passive form of die

Papiamentu

Papiamentu cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : dies

Etymology

From Spanish diez and Portuguese dez and Kabuverdianu dés.

Numeral

dies

1. ten (10)

Romansch

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin dossum, from Latin dorsum. Compare French dos.

Noun

dies m

1. (anatomy) back

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dьnьsь.

Adverb

dies (Cyrillic spelling диес)

1. (Kajkavian) today