diadem

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”).

• enPR: dī'ədem, dī'ədəm, IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪ.ə.dɛm/, /ˈdaɪ.ə.dəm/

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 […], part 1, 2nd edition, 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.

• diadem lemur
• diademed sifaka
• diadem spider

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

1. To adorn with a diadem; to crown.

• Maddie, ad idem, mediad

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

diadem n (singular definite diademet, plural indefinite diademer)

1. diadem, tiara

• “diadem” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈdja.dɛm/

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• Rhymes: -adɛm
• Syllabification: dia‧dem

diadem m inan

1. diadem (ornamental headband)

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

diadem n (plural diademe)

1. Alternative form of diademă

diadem n

1. diadem, tiara