Meaning of dies | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A day
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2. A solar or sidereal day of about 24 hours, especially (historical) Roman dates reckoned from one midnight to the next.
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3. Daytime: a period of light between sunrise and sunset.
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4. A set day: a date, an appointment.
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Equivalents

Examples

“in dies”

day by day

“sub diem”

at daybreak

“ante diem III idus Ianuarias”

the third day before the January ides

“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.

“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.”

“prima diei hora”

the first hour of the day

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