DIURNA

Definition: DIURNA

DIURNA

Noun plural

1. A division of Lepidoptera, including the butterflies; -- so called because they fly only in the daytime.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "DIURNA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1678. (references)

Etymology: Diurna \Di*ur"na\, plural noun. [New Latin expression, from the Latin expression diurnus belonging to the day.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: DIURNA

Specialty definitions using "DIURNA": caracaras ♦ falcons. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Su esposa diurna (1944)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "DIURNA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		jaktation om dagen (jactatio diurna), jactatio diurna (jactatio diurna). (various references)

Dutch		jactatio diurna (jactatio diurna). (various references)

French		jactation diurne (jactatio diurna). (various references)

German		Jactatio diurna (jactatio diurna). (various references)

Greek		ημερήσιος ριπτασμός (jactatio diurna). (various references)

Italian		autoritmi (jactatio diurna). (various references)

Pig Latin		iurnaday

Portuguese		jactação diurna (jactatio diurna). (various references)

Spanish		jactación diurna (jactatio diurna). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	jactatio diurna. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "DIURNA": diurnal, diurnally, diurnals. (additional references)
	Words containing "DIURNA": semidiurnal. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: durian.
	Words within the letters "a-d-i-n-r-u"
	-1 letter: dinar, drain, nadir, ranid.
	-2 letters: airn, arid, darn, dura, durn, nard, nurd, raid, rain, rand, rani, rind, ruin, unai.
	-3 letters: aid, ain, air, and, ani, din, dui, dun, rad, ran, ria, rid, rin, run, urd, urn.
	-4 letters: ad, ai, an, ar, id, in, na, nu, un.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-i-n-r-u"
	+1 letter: diurnal, durians, iracund, unaired, unbraid, unitard, uranide.
	+2 letters: adjuring, airbound, antidrug, denarius, dinosaur, diurnals, duration, guardian, guarding, indurate, muraenid, rigaudon, ruinated, unafraid, unbraids, undaring, unhaired, unitards, unpaired, unraised, unrepaid, unvaried, uranides, uredinia, urinated.
	+3 letters: antifraud, crusading, curtained, dinosaurs, diurnally, duralumin, durations, guardians, indurated, indurates, inundator, laundries, manicured, marauding, muraenids, nursemaid, outdaring, rigaudons, ruminated, saturniid, traducing, unadmired, unbraided, underlaid, underlain, underpaid, undrained, undraping, undrawing, unhandier, unmarried, unreadier, unridable, unrivaled, untrained, unwearied, updarting, upgrading, urbanised, urbanized, uredinial.
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