Dione
See also: dione
Translingual

Etymology
Latin Dionē (“mother of Venus”), from Ancient Greek Διώνη (Diṓnē, “mother of Aphrodite”)
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa - superphylum; Arthropoda - phylum; Hexapoda - subphylum; Insecta - class; Pterygota - subclass; Neoptera - infraclass; Lepidoptera - order; Glossata - suborder; Heteroneura - infraorder; Ditrysia - division; Cossina - section; Bombycina - subsection; Papilionoidea - superfamily; Papilioniformes - series; Nymphalidae - family; Heliconiinae - subfamily; Heliconiini - tribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): Dione juno - type species; Dione glycera, Dione moneta - species
References
Dione (butterfly) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Dione on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Dione on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
English
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /daɪˈoʊni/
Proper noun
Dione
Derived terms
Italian
Etymology
From Ancient Greek Διώνη (Diṓnē).
Latin
References
- Dione in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Dione in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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