dies

Usage notes

 * In the nominative and accusative neuter, the forms dieses and dies are in general interchangeable, but there is a tendency to prefer one or the other in the following situations:
 * In adjectival usage, dieses is generally preferred to dies. So dieses Haus ("this house") is more common than the also correct and synonymic dies Haus.
 * In substantival usage, dieses is used to refer to a previously used neuter noun:
 * Unser Unternehmen sollte das Gebäude verkaufen. Wir können dieses nicht mehr gebrauchen.
 * Our company should sell the building. We cannot make use of it anymore.
 * Dies is used to refer to a preceding context or phrase:
 * Unser Unternehmen sollte das Gebäude verkaufen. Dies würde uns viel Geld einbringen.
 * Our company should sell the building. This would earn us a lot of money.
 * Dies is also used to refer to something the speaker perceives with the senses (exophoric use, deixis):
 * Sieh dir dies mal an! – Have a look at this! (e.g. a newspaper article)
 * Dies sind meine Kinder. – These are my children. (regular use of the neuter singular with a copula verb)
 * The above habits are mainly true of formal speech and writing. Colloquially, the shorter dies is often preferred, but the pronouns and  are even more common.

Etymology
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Numeral

 * 1)  ten

Etymology
Back-formed from the accusative (at a time when the vowel was still long), from, the accusative of , from. The original nominative survives as in two fossilised phrases:  and. The d in diēs is a puzzle with some suggesting dialect borrowing and others referring to an etymon *diyew- via Lindeman's Law. But note the possible Proto-Italic allophony between *-CjV- and *-CiV-, which may be the cause for this divergence (See WT:AITC).

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, but not, which is a false cognate. The Italic stem was also the source of, the genitive of and was generally interchangeable with it in earlier times, still shown by the analogical formation.

Noun

 * 1) A day, particularly:
 * 2) A solar or sidereal day of about 24 hours, especially  Roman dates reckoned from one midnight to the next.
 * 3) Daytime: a period of light between sunrise and sunset.
 * 4)  A set day: a date, an appointment.
 * 1) Daytime: a period of light between sunrise and sunset.
 * 2)  A set day: a date, an appointment.
 * 1) Daytime: a period of light between sunrise and sunset.
 * 2)  A set day: a date, an appointment.
 * 1)  A set day: a date, an appointment.
 * 1)  A set day: a date, an appointment.

Usage notes

 * Dates in the Roman calendar were reckoned according to the calends, the nones , and the ides . The calends of every month was its first day; the nones and ides of most months were their 5th and 13th days; and the nones and ides of the four original 31-day months—, , or , and —were two days later. January 1st was thus   or . The day preceding any of these three principal days was called its eve . January 12th was thus    or  . All other days of the month were expressed by counting inclusively forward to the next of these three principal days and, in early Latin, this was expressed in the ablative. January 11th was thus      or  . By the time of classical Latin, however, the  had moved to the beginning of the expression and it became an accusative absolute:      or  (   .). In this form, the date functioned as a single indeclinable noun and could serve as the object of prepositions such as  and.
 * Unlike most fifth-declension nouns, diēs is not exclusively feminine. It was typically masculine, particularly in the plural. It appears as a feminine noun when being personified as a goddess, in some specific dates, in reference to the passing of time, and occasionally in other contexts.

Descendants

 * Balkan Romance:
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 * Ibero-Romance:
 * Insular Romance:
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Adverb

 * 1) therefore, because of that, for that reason

Conjunction

 * 1) until
 * 2) because

Etymology
From and  and.

Numeral

 * 1)  ten (10)

Etymology
From, from. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  back

Etymology
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Adverb

 * 1)  today