dias

Influenced by the (disputed) pronunciation /ˈdaɪ.əs/;^{[en 1]} cf. bias.

dias

1. Misspelling of dais.^{[en 1]}
   • 1878, John Ruskin, “Carpaccio's Princess”, in Louisa C. Tuthill, editor, Pearls for Young Ladies, New York: John Wiley, page 138:

     The princess's shield is at the head of it, and the feet are raised entirely above the floor of the room, on a dias which projects at the lower end so as to form a seat, on which the child has laid her crown.

   • 1981 September 29, John Darnton, “POLISH DISSIDENTS DISBAND KEY GROUP”, in The New York Times‎^[1], page A4:

     A wizened figure who moved slowly up the steps of the dias but who spoke in a booming voice, he seized on the occasion to read the dissident group's "last will and testament" and to tell the assembled delegates about a different vision of socialism.

dias n (singular definite diasset, plural indefinite dias)

1. slide (transparent image, to be projected to a screen; a slide in a computer presentation)

From Old Irish días.^[1]

• déas, déis, léas
• deus (obsolete)^[2]

dias f (genitive singular déise, nominative plural diasa)

1. ear (fruiting body of a grain plant), cob

   Synonym: croithleog

   dias arbhair ― corn cob

   dias eorna ― ear of barley

   dias seagail ― head of rye

2. (botany) spike (kind of inflorescence)
3. point of a weapon

   dias claímh ― point of a sword

4. scion (descendant)

   Synonyms: buinneán, beangán

• diasach
• diasóg
• diasra

From Old Irish dïas.^[3]

dias f (genitive singular déise, nominative plural diasa)

1. alternative form of dís (“pair, couple”)
2. (tennis) deuce (tie, both players able to win by scoring two additional points)

From Dia +‎ -as.

dias m (genitive singular diais)

1. deism

• diasaí
• diasaíocht

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “dias”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 239
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dias”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

diās

1. accusative feminine plural of dius

• "dias", 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)
• “dias”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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• IPA^(key): /ˈdʲi.əs/

dïas f

1. pair, couple (used of persons only, whereas déde is used of things)

A dative plural de(i)ssib is also attested.

• Irish: dís, dias
• Manx: jees
• Scottish Gaelic: dithis

• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909] D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 388, page 244; reprinted 2017

dias m pl

1. plural of dia

Inherited from Old Polish dyjas. Compare Czech ďas.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdjas/
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: dias

dias m animal (diminutive diasek)

1. (euphemistic, rare, folklore) devil, fiend

   Synonyms: bies, czart, diabeł, licho

• dias in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “djabeł”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna

• Hyphenation: di‧as

dias

1. plural of dia

From Old Irish días.

dias f (genitive singular dèise, plural dèisean)

1. ear (fruiting body of a grain plant)

   dias coirce ― ear of corn

   dias Innseanach ― corn on the cob

2. piece of barley chaff
3. handsome fellow, suitor

   an d'fhuair thu dias aig a' dannsa? ― did you pick up a handsome fellow at the dance?

dias m pl

1. plural of dia

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dias

1. inflection of dia:
   1. infinitive passive
   2. present passive

dias

1. indefinite genitive singular of dia