diadema
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin diadēma, from Ancient Greek διάδημα (diádēma), from διαδέω (diadéō, “I bind around”).
Further reading
- “diadema” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “diadema”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “diadema” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “diadema” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician
Etymology
From Latin diadēma, from Ancient Greek διάδημα (diádēma), from διαδέω (diadéō, “I bind around”).
Italian
Etymology
From Latin diadēma, from Ancient Greek διάδημα (diádēma), from διαδέω (diadéō, “I bind around”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.aˈdɛ.ma/, /djaˈdɛ.ma/
- Rhymes: -ɛma
- Hyphenation: di‧a‧dè‧ma, dia‧dè‧ma
Further reading
- diadema in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- diadema in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Latin
Etymology
From Koine Greek διάδημα (diádēma, “a decorative wreath-shaped headdress”), from Ancient Greek διαδέω (diadéō, “to encircle, bind, wrap around”) + -μα (-ma, result noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /di.aˈdeː.ma/, [d̪iäˈd̪eːmä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /di.aˈde.ma/, [d̪iäˈd̪ɛːmä]
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | diadēma | diadēmata |
| Genitive | diadēmatis | diadēmatum |
| Dative | diadēmatī | diadēmatibus |
| Accusative | diadēma | diadēmata |
| Ablative | diadēmate | diadēmatibus |
| Vocative | diadēma | diadēmata |
Descendants
References
- “diadema”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “diadema”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- diadema 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)
- diadema in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “diadema”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “diadema”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin diadēma, from Ancient Greek διάδημα (diádēma), from διαδέω (diadéō, “to bind around”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /d͡ʒi.aˈdẽ.mɐ/ [d͡ʒɪ.aˈdẽ.mɐ], (faster pronunciation) /d͡ʒjaˈdẽ.mɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /d͡ʒi.aˈde.ma/ [d͡ʒɪ.aˈde.ma], (faster pronunciation) /d͡ʒjaˈde.ma/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /di.ɐˈde.mɐ/ [di.ɐˈðe.mɐ], (faster pronunciation) /djɐˈde.mɐ/ [djɐˈðe.mɐ]
- Rhymes: -emɐ
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [di.aˈdema]
Spanish




Etymology
From Latin diadēma, from Ancient Greek διάδημα (diádēma), from διαδέω (diadéō, “to bind around”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /djaˈdema/ [d̪jaˈð̞e.ma]
- Rhymes: -ema
- Syllabification: dia‧de‧ma
Noun
diadema f (plural diademas)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “diadema”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014