Dione

Latin Diōnē (“mother of Venus”), from Ancient Greek Διώνη (Diṓnē, “mother of Aphrodite”)

Dione f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Nymphalidae – certain butterflies.

• (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

• (genus): Dione juno - type species; Dione glycera, Dione moneta - species

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From Latin Diōnē (“mother of Venus”), from Ancient Greek Διώνη (Diṓnē, “mother of Aphrodite”).

• IPA^(key): /daɪˈoʊni/

Dione (countable and uncountable, plural Diones)

1. (Greek mythology) Mother of Aphrodite, and possibly the same as the goddess Rhea.
2. (astronomy) A moon in Jupiter system, Solar System; The fourth largest moon of Saturn.
3. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
4. A surname from French

• Denio, Edoni, inode, on-die

From Ancient Greek Διώνη (Diṓnē).

Dione f

1. (Greek mythology) Dione
2. (astronomy) a moon of Saturn

• Deino

Diōne

1. ablative singular of Diōn

• “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.