Latin word for die

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E-Declension masculine

Forms

	Singular	Plural
Nom.	dies	dies
Gen.	diei	dierum
Dat.	diei	diebus
Acc.	diem	dies
Voc.	dies	dies
Abl.	die	diebus

How to Say You’re Dead — Latin Death Vocabulary

Words in Latin for Death and Dying

Updated on January 08, 2018

Here are some expressions from Classical Latin dealing with death. In general, the infinitives need to be conjugated. [The infinitive is like the English form of the verb with «to» in front of it, as in «to die,» «to kick the bucket» or «to push up daisies.» Conjugation here refers to putting the proper ending on the verb, depending on who is doing the dying. In Latin this involves more than adding or removing a final s as we do in English to change «he dies» to «they die» or «she pushes up daisies» to «you push up daisies.»]

Leave This Life

If you want to refer to someone’s departure from life, you could use a conjugated version of one of the following phrases:

• [(de) vita] decedere
• (ex) vita excedere
• ex vita abire
• mortem obire
• de vita exire
• de (ex) vita migrare

Give Up the Ghost

In Latin you can «give up the ghost» by saying:

• animam edere or efflare
• extremum vitae spiritum edere

Before One’s Time

Someone who dies before his time dies in these ways:

• mature decedere
• subita morte exstingui
• mors immatura or praematura

Suicide

Committing suicide can be done in a variety of ways. Here are Latin expressions connoting self-inflicted death.

• mortem sibi consciscere
• se vita privare
• vitae finem facere

Suicide by Poison

Taking poison for suicide:

• veneno sibi mortem consciscere
• poculum mortis exhaurire
• poculum mortiferum exhaurire

Violent Murder

Killing someone violently:

• plagam extremam infligere
• plagam mortiferam infligere

Noble Suicide

A patriotic Roman death might be described using the following:

• mortem occumbere pro patria
• sanguinem suum pro patria effundere
• vitam profundere pro patria
• se morti offerre pro salute patriae

Source

• C. Meissner’s Latin Phrase Book

English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• dye (obsolete)

Pronunciation[edit]

• enPR: dī, IPA^(key): /daɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Homophones: dye, Di, Dai, daye

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English deyen, from Old English dīeġan and Old Norse deyja, both from Proto-Germanic *dawjaną (“to die”). Displaced Old English sweltan, whence Modern English swelt.

Verb[edit]

die (third-person singular simple present dies, present participle dying, simple past and past participle died)

1. (intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.
   1. followed by of; general use:

      He died of malaria.

      • 1839, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, Penguin 1985, page 87:

        «What did she die of, Work’us?» said Noah. «Of a broken heart, some of our old nurses told me,» replied Oliver.

      • 2000, Stephen King, On Writing, Pocket Books 2002, page 85:

        In 1971 or 72, Mom’s sister Carolyn Weimer died of breast cancer.

   2. followed by from; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences:

      He died from heart failure.

      • 1865, British Medical Journal, 4 Mar 1865, page 213:

        She lived several weeks; but afterwards she died from epilepsy, to which malady she had been previously subject.

      • 2007, Frank Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Sandworms of Dune, Tor 2007, page 191:

        «Or all of them will die from the plague. Even if most of the candidates succumb […] «

   3. followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes:

      He died for the one he loved.

      • 1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Simon & Schuster 1999, page 232:

        Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war.

      • 2003, Tara Herivel & Paul Wright (editors), Prison Nation, Routledge 2003, page 187:

        Less than three days later, Johnson lapsed into a coma in his jail cell and died for lack of insulin.

   4. (now rare) followed by with as an indication of direct cause:

      • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

        Therefore let Benedicke like covered fire, / Consume away in sighes, waste inwardly: / It were a better death, to die with mockes, / Which is as bad as die with tickling.

      • 1830, Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon, Richards 1854, page 337:

        And there were some who died with fevers, which at some seasons of the year was very frequent in the land.

   5. (uncommon, nonstandard outside video games) followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from):

      I can’t believe I just died to a turret!

      • 2014, S. J. Groves, The Darker Side to Dr Carter, page 437:

        Dr Thomas concluded she had died to a blow to the head, which led to a bleed on the brain, probably a fall and had hit her head hard on the wooden bedpost, as there was blood on the bedpost.

   6. (still current) followed by with as an indication of manner:

      She died with dignity.

2. (transitive) To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death).

   He died a hero’s death.

   They died a thousand deaths.

   • 2019, Lou Marinoff, On Human Conflict: The Philosophical Foundations of War and Peace, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 452:

     […] he chose instead to suffer even greater personal pain, with unimaginable fortitude and resolve, albeit for a shorter time. Thus he died a small death, in order to benefit the living. Similarly, a small and voluntary death was died by Socrates.

3. (video games, slang) To lose a game.

   Whenever my brother dies, he ragequits.

4. (intransitive, figuratively) To yearn intensely.

   I’m dying for a packet of crisps.

   I’m dying for a piss.

   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     Yes, and his ill conditions; and in despite of all, dies for him.

   • 2004 Paul Joseph Draus, Consumed in the city: observing tuberculosis at century’s end — Page 168

     I could see that he was dying, dying for a cigarette, dying for a fix maybe, dying for a little bit of freedom, but trapped in a hospital bed and a sick body.

5. (intransitive, uncommon, idiomatic) To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.

   The day our sister eloped, she died to our mother.

   • 2015, Emily Duvall, Inclusions, page 150:

     «My dad […] beat us until we couldn’t sit down.» […] «What about your mother?» […] «She’s alive. […] My aunt visits her once a year, but I don’t ask about my mother. She died to me the day she chose my father over protecting us.» Luke’s voice hitched with emotion.

   • 2017, Mike Hoornstra, Descent into the Maelstrom, page 366:

     «You haven’t been my son since you were ten years old. That boy died to me the day he ran away. I don’t know you. You are merely a shell that resembles someone I used to know, but you are dead to me. You are the bringer of pain and death. Leave me be. Leave me with my son, Jyosh.» «Mother…» Barlun pleaded.

6. (intransitive, figuratively) To become spiritually dead; to lose hope.

   He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.

   • 2011, Ingrid Michaelson (lyrics and music), “Ghost”, in Human Again‎^[1]:

     Do you know that I went down / To the ground / Landed on both my broken-hearted knees… / […] I didn’t even cry / ‘Cause pieces of me had already died

7. (intransitive, colloquial, hyperbolic) To be mortified or shocked by a situation.

   If anyone sees me wearing this ridiculous outfit, I’ll die.

8. (intransitive, figurative, hyperbolic) To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated.

   When I found out my two favorite musicians would be recording an album together, I literally planned my own funeral arrangements and died.

   • 1976, an anchorman on Channel Five in California, quoted in Journal and Newsletter [of the] California Classical Association, Northern Section:

     I literally died when I saw that.

9. (intransitive, of a machine) To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose «vitality».

   My car died in the middle of the freeway this morning.

   Sorry I couldn’t call you. My phone died.

   My battery died and my charger was at home.

10. (intransitive, of a computer program) To abort, to terminate (as an error condition).
11. (intransitive, of a legislative bill or resolution) To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote.

    The proposed gas tax died after the powerful rural senator refused to let it out of committee.

12. To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct.

    • 1714 September 26 (Gregorian calendar)​, Joseph Addison; Richard Steele [et al.], “WEDNESDAY, September 15, 1714”, in The Spectator, number 594; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

      letting the secret die within his own breast

    • Great deeds cannot die.

13. To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
14. (often with «to») To become indifferent; to cease to be subject.

    to die to pleasure or to sin

15. (architecture) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
16. To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
17. (of a stand-up comedian or a joke) To fail to evoke laughter from the audience.

    Then there was that time I died onstage in Montreal…

Usage notes[edit]

• In Middle and Early Modern English, the phrase is dead was more common where the present perfect form has died is common today. Example:

1611, King James Bible

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. (Gal. 2:21)

Conjugation[edit]

Synonyms[edit]

• (to stop living): bite the dust, bite the big one, buy the farm, check out, code, cross over, cross the river, decompose, dematerialize, expire, succumb, give up the ghost, pass, pass away, pass on, be no more, meet one’s maker, be a stiff, push up the daisies, hop off the twig, kick the bucket, shuffle off this mortal coil, join the choir invisible
• See also Thesaurus:die

Derived terms[edit]

[edit]

• dead
• death

Descendants[edit]

• → Vietnamese: đai

Translations[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English dee, from Old French de (Modern French dé), from Latin datum, from datus (“given”), the past participle of dō (“to give”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to lay out, to spread out”). Doublet of datum.

Noun[edit]

die (plural dies)

1. The cubical part of a pedestal; a plinth.
2. A device for cutting into a specified shape.
3. A device used to cut an external screw thread. (Internal screw threads are cut with a tap.)
4. A mold for forming metal or plastic objects.
5. An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals.
7. (semiconductors, plural also dice) An oblong chip fractured from a semiconductor wafer engineered to perform as an independent device or integrated circuit.

   • 2002, John L. Hennessy; David A. Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 19:

     The number of dies per wafer is basically the area of the wafer divided by the area of the die.

   • 2009, Paul R. Gray, Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, fifth edition, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 159:

     Once the wafer has undergone the wafer-probe test, it is separated into individual dice by sawing or scribing and breaking. The dice are visually inspected, sorted, and readied for assembly into packages.

8. Any small cubical or square body.

   • 1741, I[saac] Watts, The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick: […], London: […] James Brackstone, […], →OCLC:

     Some young creatures have learnt their letters and syllables, and the pronouncing and spelling of words, by having them pasted or written upon many little flat tablets or dies.

Noun[edit]

die (plural dice or (nonstandard) dies)

1. An isohedral polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance.

   Most dice are six-sided.

   I rolled the die and moved 2 spaces on the board.

   • 1748, [David Hume], “Of Probability”, in Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 94:

     If a Dye were mark’d with one Figure or Number of Spots on four Sides, and with another Figure or Number of Spots on the two remaining Sides, ’twould be more probable, that the former ſhould turn up than the latter;

   • 2000, Richard Shoup, Barry Lenson, editor, Take Control Of Your Life: How to Control Fate, Luck, Chaos, Karma, and Life’s Other Unruly Forces, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 42:

     When you roll two dies—or three, or four—the odds of obtaining a specific number becomes complex in a logarithmic progression.

   • 2012, Rinaldo B. Schinazi, “Probability Space”, in Probability with Statistical Applications, second edition, Birkhäuser, →ISBN, “Independent Events”, “Exercises”, page 16:

     We roll two dies repeatedly until we get the first double.

   • 2014, Ionut Florescu; Ciprian A. Tudor, Handbook of Probability, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN:

     Roll two dies 24 times. What is the probability of rolling at least one double 6?

   • 2017 December 8, “Adorable Kitten”, in Unstable, Wizards of the Coast:

     When this creature enters the battlefield, roll a six-sided die. You gain life equal to the result.

2. (obsolete) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.

Usage notes[edit]

The game of dice is singular. Thus in «Dice is a game played with dice,» the first occurrence is singular, the second occurrence is plural. See also the usage notes under «dice».

Synonyms[edit]

• cube of chance
• cube of fortune

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

Variant spelling.

Noun[edit]

die (plural dies)

1. Obsolete spelling of dye

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones:

     He hath carried his friendship to this man to a blameable length, by too long concealing facts of the blackest die.

Verb[edit]

die (third-person singular simple present dies, present participle dying, simple past and past participle died)

1. Obsolete spelling of dye
   • 1739, John Cay, An abridgment of the publick statutes in force and use from Magna Charta, in the ninth year of King Henry III, to the eleventh year of his present Majesty King George II, inclusive, Drapery, XXVII. Sect. 16:

     Also no dyer shall die any cloth, except he die the cloth and the list with one colour, without tacking any bulrushes or such like thing upon the lists, upon pain to forfeit 40 s. for every cloth. And no person shall put to sale any cloth deceitfully dyed,

   • 1813, James Haigh, The Dier’s Assistant in the Art of Dying Wool and Woollen Goods:

     To die wool with madder, prepare a fresh liquor, and when the water is come to a heat to bear the hand, put in half a pound of the finest grape madder for each pound of wool;

   • 1827, John Shepard, The artist & tradesman’s guide: embracing some leading facts:

     To die Wool and Woollen Cloths of a Blue Colour. One part of indigo, in four parts concentrated sulphuric acid, dissolved; then add one part of dry carbonate of potash, […]

See also[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

• ‘Eid, ‘eid, -ide, DEI, EDI, EID, Eid, IDE, IED, Ide, eid, ide

Afrikaans[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• di (obsolete)

Etymology[edit]

From Dutch die, which is used only as a demonstrative in Dutch. The replacement of the article de with stronger die is also common in Surinamese Dutch and among non-native speakers of Dutch.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /di/
• IPA^(key): /‿i/ (article only; contracted form, particularly after prepositions and conjunctions)

Article[edit]

die (definite)

1. the (definite article)

   die man ― the man

   die vrou ― the woman

   die kind ― the child

Pronoun[edit]

die

1. this one, these; that one, those;

   Die dokter het gesê dat jy siek is. Die is die rede hoekom jy in die bed moet bly.

   The doctor said that you are sick. That is the reason why you must stay in bed.

Usage notes[edit]

• The demonstrative pronoun (“this/these”, “that/those”) is usually spelt dié in order to distinguish it from the definite article.

Bavarian[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

die (dative)

1. (Niederbayerisch) to you

Danish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Danish di, from Old Norse *día, from Proto-Germanic *dijōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck, suckle”).

Cognate with Latin fellō, Sanskrit धयति (dhayati, “to suck”). Compare causative dægge, Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌳𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 (daddjan, “suckle”).

The noun is derived from the verb.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /diːə/, [ˈd̥iːə]

Noun[edit]

die c

1. breast milk, mother’s milk, when sucked from the breast

Usage notes[edit]

Only used in the set phrase «give die«.

Verb[edit]

die (imperative di, infinitive at die, present tense dier, past tense diede, perfect tense har diet)

1. to suckle

References[edit]

• “die,1” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “die,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Dutch die, a merger of Old Dutch thie, thē, thia, thiu and similar forms of the demonstrative. As in Old High German ther, der it replaced the original masculine and feminine nominative forms from Proto-Germanic *sa.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /di/
• Hyphenation: die
• Rhymes: -i

Determiner[edit]

die

1. that (masculine, feminine); referring to a thing or a person further away.

   die boom

   that tree

   die vrouw

   that woman

2. those (plural); referring to things or people further away.

   die vensters

   those windows

3. (Suriname, colloquial) a certain, a particular; some; this; referring to a thing or a person that the speaker does not think is known to the audience.

   Die vrouw vraagt als iemand aardvruchten wil kopen.

   A woman is asking if anyone wants to buy root vegetables.

   Ik heb die wagen geslagen.

   I hit a car.

Inflection[edit]

	Sg. m.	Sg. f.	Sg. n.	Pl.
Nom.	die	die	dat	die
Gen.	diens van dien	dier van die	(diens) van dat	dier van die
Dat.	dien aan dien	dier aan die	(dien) aan dat	dien aan die
Acc.	dien	die	dat	die

Dutch demonstrative determiners
	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Plural
Proximal	deze	deze	dit	deze
Distal	die	die	dat	die
Possessive	diens	dier	diens	dier

Descendants[edit]

• Afrikaans: die
• Berbice Creole Dutch: dida
• Jersey Dutch: dî
• Negerhollands: die, di, i, dida, da die

Pronoun[edit]

die m or f or pl

1. (relative) who, whom, which, that

   Ik ken geen mensen die dat kunnen.

   I don’t know any people who can do that.

   Oh, maar ik ken iemand die dat wel kan!

   Oh, but I know somebody who can!

Usage notes[edit]

A preceding comma may alter the meaning of a clause starting with a relative pronoun. Compare the following sentences:

• Alle arbeiders die staken zullen op sancties moeten rekenen.

  All workers who are on strike should expect sanctions.

• Alle arbeiders, die staken, zullen op sancties moeten rekenen.

  All workers, who are on strike, should expect sanctions.

In the first sentence, only the workers on strike are advised to expect sanctions. In the second sentence, the parenthetical phrase indicates that all the workers are on strike, and should all expect sanctions.

German[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /diː/ (stressed)
• IPA^(key): /dɪ/ (unstressed)
• Rhymes: -iː

Article[edit]

die (definite)

1. nominative/accusative singular feminine of der

   die Frau ― the woman

2. nominative/accusative plural of der

   die Männer ― the men

Declension[edit]

German definite articles
	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Plural
Nominative	der	die	das	die
Genitive	des	der	des	der
Dative	dem	der	dem	den
Accusative	den	die	das	die

Pronoun[edit]

die (relative or demonstrative)

1. inflection of der:
   1. nominative/accusative singular feminine
   2. nominative/accusative plural
      1. (in a subordinate clause as a relative pronoun) that; which; who; whom; whose

         Ich kenne eine Frau, die das kann. ― I know a woman who can do that.

      2. (as a demonstrative pronoun) this one; that one; these ones; those ones; she; her; it; they; them

         die da ― that one/she/they there

Usage notes[edit]

In a subordinate clause, die indicates a person or thing referenced in the main clause. It is used with plural or feminine singular antecedents.

Declension[edit]

Declension of der
	masculine	feminine	neuter	plural
nominative	der	die	das	die
genitive	dessen	deren younger also: derer	dessen	derer deren
dative	dem	der	dem	denen
accusative	den	die	das	die

Anagrams[edit]

• Eid

Hunsrik[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• ti (Wiesemann spelling system)

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ti(ː)/

Article[edit]

die (definite)

1. inflection of där:
   1. nominative/accusative singular feminine
   2. nominative/accusative plural all genders

Declension[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Interlingua[edit]

Noun[edit]

die (plural dies)

1. A day.

Derived terms[edit]

• De die in die (“From day to day”)
• Un die (“One day, sometime”)
• Le die sequente (“The next day, the following day”)

Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin diēs, back-formed from the accusative diem (whose vowel was once long), from Proto-Italic
*djēm, from Proto-Indo-European *dyew- (“heaven, sky; to shine”).

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ˈdi.e/
• Rhymes: -ie
• Hyphenation: dì‧e

Noun[edit]

die m (invariable)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of dì

Anagrams[edit]

• -ide, dei, dèi

Japanese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Appropriation of English die for a homophone.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): [da̠i]

Verb[edit]

die(ダイ) • (dai) 

1. (slang, humorous) Alternative spelling of 大 (dai)

Latin[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.eː/, [ˈd̪ieː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.e/, [ˈd̪iːe]

Noun[edit]

diē m or f

1. ablative singular of diēs (“day”)

   Sine die.

   Without a day.

Mandarin[edit]

Romanization[edit]

die

1. Nonstandard spelling of diē.
2. Nonstandard spelling of dié.

Usage notes[edit]

• Transcriptions of Mandarin speech into the Roman alphabet often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Middle Dutch[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Dutch thie, thia, from Proto-Germanic *sa.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /diə/, /di/

Article[edit]

die

1. the; definite article.

Inflection[edit]

This article needs an inflection-table template.

• Alternative nominative: de
• Neuter nominative: dat
• des; der; den

Descendants[edit]

• Dutch: de
• Limburgish: d’r, de

Determiner[edit]

die

1. that, those
2. who, which, that

   • 1249, Schepenbrief van Bochoute, Velzeke, eastern Flanders:

     Descepenen van bochouta quedden alle degene die dese lettren sien selen i(n) onsen here.

     The aldermen of Bochoute address all who will see this letter by our lord.

Inflection[edit]

This determiner needs an inflection-table template.

• Neuter nominative: dat
• dies; dien; diere, dier

Descendants[edit]

• Dutch: die, dat
• Limburgish: dae

Further reading[edit]

• “die (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “die (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Dutch thīo, from Proto-Germanic *þeuhą.

Noun[edit]

dië f or n

1. thigh

Descendants[edit]

• Dutch: dij
• Limburgish: die, diech

Further reading[edit]

• “die (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “die (IV)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page IV

Mirandese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin diēs.

Noun[edit]

die m (plural dies)

1. day

Antonyms[edit]

• nuite

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Probably from Danish die, from Old Danish di, from Germanic *dijana-, *dejana-

Verb[edit]

die (imperative di, present tense dier, passive dies, simple past and past participle dia or diet, present participle diende)

1. to suck, suckle (of a baby on the breast)
2. to breastfeed, nurse (of a mother with her baby)

References[edit]

• “die” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “die_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Probably from Danish die, from Old Danish di, from Germanic *dijana-, *dejana-

Verb[edit]

die (present tense diar, past tense dia, past participle dia, passive infinitive diast, present participle diande, imperative die/di)

1. to suck, suckle (of a baby on the breast)
2. to breastfeed, nurse (of a mother with her baby)

Alternative forms[edit]

• dia

References[edit]

• “die” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pennsylvania German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle High German and Old High German diu, from Proto-Germanic *sa. Compare German die.

Article[edit]

die f (definite)

1. the

Declension[edit]

	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Plural
Nominative	der	die	es	die
Accusative	der	die	es	die
Dative	dem	der	em	de

Romanian[edit]

Interjection[edit]

die

1. Alternative form of di

Saterland Frisian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /di/
• Hyphenation: die
• Rhymes: -i

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Frisian thī, from Proto-West Germanic *þa, from Proto-Germanic *sa. Cognates include West Frisian de and German der.

Article[edit]

die (unstressed de, oblique dän, feminine ju, neuter dät, plural do)

1. the

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Frisian thī, from Proto-West Germanic *þiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þiz. Cognates include West Frisian dy and German dir.

Pronoun[edit]

die

1. thyself, yourself

See also[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

die

1. oblique of du; thee, you

See also[edit]

References[edit]

• Marron C. Fort (2015), “die”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

Teanu[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Oceanic *suʀi (“fishbone, thorn, splinter”), from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *zuʀi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duʀi, from Proto-Austronesian *duʀi (“thorn”).

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /ⁿdie/

Noun[edit]

die

1. bone

References[edit]

• François, Alexandre. 2021. Teanu dictionary (Solomon Islands). Dictionaria 15. 1-1877. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.5653063. – entry die.
• François, Alexandre. 2021. Online Teanu–English dictionary, with equivalents in Lovono and Tanema. Electronic files. Paris: CNRS. – entry die.
• Lackey, W.J.. & Boerger, B.H. (2021), “Reexamining the Phonological History of Oceanic’s Temotu subgroup”, in Oceanic Linguistics.

Yola[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• dei, dey, daie

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English day, from Old English dæġ, from Proto-West Germanic *dag.

Noun[edit]

die (plural dais or daies or daiez)

1. day

Derived terms[edit]

• to-die
• hollydie
• die oaskean

References[edit]

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 35