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A ver si quedamos un día para el almuerzo .

Let's see if we have a day left for lunch.

Al día siguiente se abrió al público .

The next day it opened to the public.

Un video musical fue lanzado el mismo día .

A music video was also released the same day.

Hoy en día funciona ahí la Universidad Nacional de Rosario

.

Today, the National University of Rosario operates there.

Lo cierto es que al día siguiente estaban firmando contrato .

The truth is that the next day they were signing a contract.

El día de la votación fue declarado día festivo a nivel nacional .

The day of the vote was declared a national holiday.

(masculine) day (any period of 24 hours)
(masculine) day (a period from midnight to the following midnight)
(masculine) day (rotational period of a planet)
(masculine) day (the part of a day period which one spends at work, school, etc.)
(masculine) day, daytime (the part of the day between sunrise and sunset)

Opposite of

noche

Frequency

Hyphenated as

dí‧a

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈdia/

Inherited from Old Spanish

Cognate with Old Provençal

In summary

Inherited from Old Spanish dia, from Vulgar Latin *dia, first-declension reshaping of Classical Latin diēs, from Proto-Italic *djous, from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (“heaven, sky”). Compare Old Occitan dia and Old Galician-Portuguese dia. Not cognate with English day.