See diaphane in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "cellophane"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "frm",
"3": "diaphane"
},
"expansion": "Middle French diaphane",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ML.",
"3": "diaphanus",
"4": "",
"5": "diaphanous"
},
"expansion": "Medieval Latin diaphanus (“diaphanous”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "διαφανής"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek διαφανής (diaphanḗs)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle French diaphane, from Medieval Latin diaphanus (“diaphanous”), from Ancient Greek διαφανής (diaphanḗs), from δια- (dia-, “through”) and φαίνω (phaínō, “show”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "diaphanes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "diaphane (countable and uncountable, plural diaphanes)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"tags": [
"adjective"
],
"word": "diaphanous"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "see-through"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "show-through"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English links with manual fragments",
"parents": [
"Links with manual fragments",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1919, Donald F. Goold Johnson, Poems, page 71:",
"text": "And for man's life as the clear sparkling wine, Gladding the heart and lifting up the soul From its frail diaphane of petulant flesh, Yet whence doth flow this liquor of delight ?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, The Battle of Evernight: Bitterbynde 3, →ISBN:",
"text": "Here, dragonflies of metallic emerald-gold or ruby iridescence froze in midair on almost-invisible wings of diaphane.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Valentine Cunningham, Victorian Poetry Now: Poets, Poems and Poetics, →ISBN:",
"text": "I moulded with my hands The mobile breasts, the valley; and the waist I touched; and pigments reverently placed Upon their thighs in sapient spots and stains, Beryls and crysolites and diaphanes, And gems whose hot harsh names are never said.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Something transparent."
],
"id": "en-diaphane-en-noun-en:something_transparent",
"links": [
[
"transparent",
"transparent"
]
],
"senseid": [
"en:something transparent"
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A woven silk stuff with transparent and colored figures."
],
"id": "en-diaphane-en-noun-en:woven_silk_stuff_with_figures",
"links": [
[
"stuff",
"stuff"
],
[
"figure",
"figure"
]
],
"senseid": [
"en:woven silk stuff with figures"
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "38 9 52",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "7 5 34 14 3 5 3 23 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 4 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "5 4 35 16 2 3 2 29 4",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2004, Didier Eribon, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self, →ISBN, page 168:",
"text": "The figure of the diaphane, \"this clear crystal nature,\" is a person so perfect that his simple presence would do more for the world than others manage to do through their actions.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2008, John Michael Greer, The Druid Magic Handbook: Ritual Magic Rooted in the Living Earth, →ISBN:",
"text": "Thus dreams and daydreams, stray thoughts, and all the other products of imagination are not simply inside one human brain; some are created by the diaphane of the person who experiences them, others come form outside, but all are projected onto the astral light.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Greg Urban, Metaphysical Community: The Interplay of the Senses and the Intellect, →ISBN:",
"text": "What becomes a topic of conversation, what becomes the subject of publicly circulating discourses, is what lies beyond the senses — the land above the sky, the world of the dead, the other side of the diaphane.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Essence or nature as encapsulated in a mental construct."
],
"id": "en-diaphane-en-noun-en:essence_or_nature_as_encapsulated_in_a_mental_construct",
"links": [
[
"Essence",
"essence"
],
[
"nature",
"nature"
]
],
"qualifier": "Aristotelian philosophy",
"raw_glosses": [
"(Aristotelian philosophy) Essence or nature as encapsulated in a mental construct."
],
"senseid": [
"en:essence or nature as encapsulated in a mental construct"
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈdaɪəfeɪn/"
}
],
"word": "diaphane"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Middle French",
"English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"English terms derived from Medieval Latin",
"English terms derived from Middle French",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "cellophane"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "frm",
"3": "diaphane"
},
"expansion": "Middle French diaphane",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ML.",
"3": "diaphanus",
"4": "",
"5": "diaphanous"
},
"expansion": "Medieval Latin diaphanus (“diaphanous”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "διαφανής"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek διαφανής (diaphanḗs)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle French diaphane, from Medieval Latin diaphanus (“diaphanous”), from Ancient Greek διαφανής (diaphanḗs), from δια- (dia-, “through”) and φαίνω (phaínō, “show”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "diaphanes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "~"
},
"expansion": "diaphane (countable and uncountable, plural diaphanes)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"tags": [
"adjective"
],
"word": "diaphanous"
},
{
"word": "see-through"
},
{
"word": "show-through"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English links with manual fragments",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1919, Donald F. Goold Johnson, Poems, page 71:",
"text": "And for man's life as the clear sparkling wine, Gladding the heart and lifting up the soul From its frail diaphane of petulant flesh, Yet whence doth flow this liquor of delight ?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, The Battle of Evernight: Bitterbynde 3, →ISBN:",
"text": "Here, dragonflies of metallic emerald-gold or ruby iridescence froze in midair on almost-invisible wings of diaphane.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Valentine Cunningham, Victorian Poetry Now: Poets, Poems and Poetics, →ISBN:",
"text": "I moulded with my hands The mobile breasts, the valley; and the waist I touched; and pigments reverently placed Upon their thighs in sapient spots and stains, Beryls and crysolites and diaphanes, And gems whose hot harsh names are never said.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Something transparent."
],
"links": [
[
"transparent",
"transparent"
]
],
"senseid": [
"en:something transparent"
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A woven silk stuff with transparent and colored figures."
],
"links": [
[
"stuff",
"stuff"
],
[
"figure",
"figure"
]
],
"senseid": [
"en:woven silk stuff with figures"
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2004, Didier Eribon, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self, →ISBN, page 168:",
"text": "The figure of the diaphane, \"this clear crystal nature,\" is a person so perfect that his simple presence would do more for the world than others manage to do through their actions.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2008, John Michael Greer, The Druid Magic Handbook: Ritual Magic Rooted in the Living Earth, →ISBN:",
"text": "Thus dreams and daydreams, stray thoughts, and all the other products of imagination are not simply inside one human brain; some are created by the diaphane of the person who experiences them, others come form outside, but all are projected onto the astral light.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Greg Urban, Metaphysical Community: The Interplay of the Senses and the Intellect, →ISBN:",
"text": "What becomes a topic of conversation, what becomes the subject of publicly circulating discourses, is what lies beyond the senses — the land above the sky, the world of the dead, the other side of the diaphane.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Essence or nature as encapsulated in a mental construct."
],
"links": [
[
"Essence",
"essence"
],
[
"nature",
"nature"
]
],
"qualifier": "Aristotelian philosophy",
"raw_glosses": [
"(Aristotelian philosophy) Essence or nature as encapsulated in a mental construct."
],
"senseid": [
"en:essence or nature as encapsulated in a mental construct"
],
"tags": [
"countable",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈdaɪəfeɪn/"
}
],
"word": "diaphane"
}
Download raw JSONL data for diaphane meaning in English (4.2kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-10-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (eaa6b66 and a709d4b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.