día

From Latin dies.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdia/
• Syllabification: dí‧a
• Rhymes: -ia

día

1. day

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *dia, first-declension reshaping of Classical Latin diēs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdia/ [ˈd̪i.a]
• Rhymes: -ia
• Syllabification: dí‧a

día m (plural díes)

1. day

día m (plural díes)

1. obsolete spelling of dia [–19th c.]
   • 1904, Ramón Bartomeus, Lo Gran día: sarsuela de costums catalanas en dos actes‎^[1], Biblioteca L'Escón, page 37:

     Avuy será un día de moltas trifulgas, més de quatre cops me veuré obligat á intervenir ab los assumptos del poble, […]

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• dia (reintegrationist)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese dia, from Vulgar Latin *dia, first-declension reshaping of Classical Latin diēs, reformed from the accusative diem, from Proto-Italic *djēm, the accusative of *djous (“day, sky”), from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (“heaven, sky”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdia/ [ˈd̪i.ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ia
• Hyphenation: dí‧a

día m (plural días)

1. day (24 hours)
2. period of light, when the sun is above the horizon

   Antonym: noite

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “día”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “día”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “día”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• diya

día m

1. day

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̠ʲiːa̯/

From Proto-Celtic *dyīus (compare Welsh dydd), from Proto-Indo-European *dyew-. Cognate with Latin diēs.

día (gender unknown)

1. day

   Synonym: lá

• Irish: dia

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 día (‘day’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Celtic *deiwos (compare Welsh duw), from Proto-Indo-European *deywós (compare Sanskrit दे॒व (devá), Latin deus, Old English Tīw (“Germanic god of heroic glory”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dyew- (“to shine”).

día m (genitive dé, nominative plural dé)

1. god

For quotations using this term, see Citations:día.

• Irish: dia
• Manx: jee
• Scottish Gaelic: dia
• → Old Norse: díar

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 día (‘god’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• dia (obsolete)

Inherited from Old Spanish dia, from Vulgar Latin *dia, first-declension reshaping of Classical Latin diēs, from Proto-Italic *djous, from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (“heaven, sky”). Compare Old Occitan dia and Old Galician-Portuguese dia. Not cognate with English day.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdia/ [ˈd̪i.a]

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• Rhymes: -ia
• Syllabification: dí‧a

día m (plural días)

1. day (any period of 24 hours)
2. day (a period from midnight to the following midnight)
   • 1605, Miguel de Cervantes, chapter I, in El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha [ The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha], Primera parte, Madrid: Imprenta de Juan de la Cuesta:

     El resto della concluían sayo de velarte, calzas de velludo para las fiestas, con sus pantuflos de lo mesmo, y los días de entresemana se honraba con su vellorí de lo más fino.

     The rest of it went in a doublet of fine cloth and velvet breeches and shoes to match for the holidays, while on week-days he made a brave figure in his best homespun.

   • 2025 March 17, “Así es el CECOT, la megaprisión de El Salvador que construyó Nayib Bukele para encerrar a pandilleros”, in CNN en Español‎^[2]:

     El proyecto del CECOT fue presentado días después. El estado de excepción sería por 30 días, pero continúa hasta el día de hoy.

     The CECOT project was presented days later. The state of exception was supposed to last for 30 days, but it continues to this day.

3. day (rotational period of a planet)
4. day (the part of a day period which one spends at work, school, etc.)

   Synonym: jornada

5. day, daytime (the part of the day between sunrise and sunset)

   Antonym: noche

• Papiamentu: dia
• → Sardinian: dia (Campidanese)

• “día”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025