diurnus
Latin
Etymology
Rhotacization of earlier *diusnus, from diūs (“old nominative of diēs”) + -nus (suffix forming adjectives). Re-analysed as diū (“by day”) + -rnus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /diˈur.nus/, [d̪iˈʊrnʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /diˈur.nus/, [d̪iˈurnus]
Adjective
diurnus (feminine diurna, neuter diurnum); first/second-declension adjective
- of the day
- daily
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | diurnus | diurna | diurnum | diurnī | diurnae | diurna | |
| Genitive | diurnī | diurnae | diurnī | diurnōrum | diurnārum | diurnōrum | |
| Dative | diurnō | diurnō | diurnīs | ||||
| Accusative | diurnum | diurnam | diurnum | diurnōs | diurnās | diurna | |
| Ablative | diurnō | diurnā | diurnō | diurnīs | |||
| Vocative | diurne | diurna | diurnum | diurnī | diurnae | diurna | |
Antonyms
- nocturnus
Derived terms
- diurnālis
- diurnārius
- diurnāta
- diurnē
- diurnō
Noun
diurnus m (genitive diurnī); second declension
- (Medieval Latin) day
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | diurnus | diurnī |
| Genitive | diurnī | diurnōrum |
| Dative | diurnō | diurnīs |
| Accusative | diurnum | diurnōs |
| Ablative | diurnō | diurnīs |
| Vocative | diurne | diurnī |
Descendants
- 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, jorn
- Bourguignon: jor
- Franc-Comtois: djoué
- French: jour
- → Norwegian Bokmål: jour
- Norman: jour
- Walloon: djoû
- Old Francoprovençal: jor, jorn
- Occitano-Romance:
- Old Occitan: jorn
- Occitan: jorn
- Old Occitan: jorn
- Ibero-Romance:
- Portuguese: jorna
- Ido: jorno
- → Franco-Provençal: diurno
- → French: diurne
- → Romanian: diurn
- → Italian: diurno
- → Piedmontese: diurn
- → Portuguese: diurno
- → Spanish: diurno
See also descendants at diurnāta.
References
- “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- travelling day and night: itinera diurna nocturnaque
- travelling day and night: itinera diurna nocturnaque