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diadem

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Etymology

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From Middle English diademe, dyademe, from Old French diademe, from Latin diadēma, from Ancient Greek διάδημα (diádēma, “band, especially worn around a tiara”), from διαδέω (diadéō, “bind around”).

Pronunciation

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  • enPR: dī'ədem, dī'ədəm, IPA(key): /ˈdaɪ.ə.dɛm/, /ˈdaɪ.ə.dəm/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

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diadem (plural diadems)

  1. An ornamental headband worn as a badge of royalty.
  2. A crown.
    • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene i:
      And when the princely Perſean Diadem,
      Shall ouerweigh his wearie witleſſe head,
      And fall like mellowed fruit, with ſhakes of death,
      In faire Perſea noble Tamburlain
      Shall be my Regent, and remaine as King:
    • 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
      The fever’d diadem on my brow
      I claim’d and won usurpingly ——
      Hath not the same fierce heirdom given
      Rome to the Caesar — this to me?
  3. Regal power; sovereignty; empire—considered as symbolized by the crown.
  4. (heraldry) An arch rising from the rim of a crown (rarely also of a coronet), and uniting with others over its centre.

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Translations

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Verb

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diadem (third-person singular simple present diadems, present participle diademing or diademming, simple past and past participle diademed or diademmed)

  1. To adorn with a diadem; to crown.
    • 1902, Horace G. Platt, “California”, in Harr Wagner, editor, Notable Speeches by Notable Speakers of the Greater West, San Francisco, Calif.: The Whitaker and Ray Company (Incorporated), page 215:
      The star of her destiny is the morning star of the new-born century. O’er the Golden Gate it glitters, diademming this youthful Queen of the Pacific in her robes of freedom gorgeously inlaid with gold.
    • 1920 January, G. J. Rousseau, “The Grace of Liberality”, in The Homiletic Review: An International Magazine of Religion, Theology, and Philosophy; Treats Every Phase of the Minister’s Work, volume LXXIX, number 1, New York, N.Y., London: Funk and Wagnalls Company, section “Sermonic Literature”, page 72, column 1:
      Paul cites as an example the Macedonian churches and mentions specifically several things about their liberality which adorn their grace and crown it with beauty as the lily work diademmed the pillars of the Temple.
    • 1921, Linwood Taft, “Historic Festival and Pageant”, in The Technique of Pageantry, New York, N.Y.: A. S. Barnes and Company, part II, page 143:
      From many lands and from far distant climes have come great men and women to rest within our heart and to do great deeds and shape the noble events that have diademmed our crown with stars of splendor.
    • 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part II, page 353:
      butt (maomant scoffin, but apoxyomenously deturbaned but thems bleachin banes will be after making a bashman’s haloday out of the euphorious hagiohygiecynicism of his die and be diademmed).
    • 1987, The Armenian Review, page 6:
      Vardan, brave champion [or, “martyr”] who routed the enemy, / You diademmed the Church in your rosy blood.

Anagrams

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Danish

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek διάδημα (diádēma, “band, especially worn around a tiara”), from διαδέω (diadéō, “bind around”).

Noun

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diadem n (singular definite diademet, plural indefinite diademer)

  1. diadem, tiara

Declension

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Declension of diadem
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative diadem diademet diademer diademerne
genitive diadems diademets diademers diademernes

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Polish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French diadème, from Latin diadēma, from Ancient Greek διάδημα (diádēma), from διαδέω (diadéō, “to bind around”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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diadem m inan

  1. diadem (ornamental headband)

Declension

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Declension of diadem
singular plural
nominative diadem diademy
genitive diademu diademów
dative diademowi diademom
accusative diadem diademy
instrumental diademem diademami
locative diademie diademach
vocative diademie diademy

Further reading

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  • diadem in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • diadem in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

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Noun

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diadem n (plural diademe)

  1. Alternative form of diademă

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative diadem diademul diademe diademele
genitive-dative diadem diademului diademe diademelor
vocative diademule diademelor

Swedish

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Noun

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diadem n

  1. diadem, tiara

Declension

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Declension of diadem
nominative genitive
singular indefinite diadem diadems
definite diademet diademets
plural indefinite diadem diadems
definite diademen diademens

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