“day” in Latin

dies (opposed to nox): lux (opposed to tenebrae or nox): the longest day, dies solstitialis; solstitium (the whole time when the days are longest): the shortest day, dies brumalis; bruma (the whole time when the days are shortest): the days are longer than with us, dierum spatia ultra nostri orbis mensuram (Tac., Agr., 12, 3): before day, ante lucem: at break of day, (cum) prima luce; luce oriente: by day, die: interdiu: by daylight, luce: night and day, diem noctemque; dies noctesque; noctes diesque; noctes et dies; noctes atque dies (all equally common; but noctes precedes, when the notion of “night” is to be made prominent. Noctesque et dies is poetical): die ac nocte; nocte ac die; die noctuque; nocte et interdiu (= by night and by day): they worked at it night and day, noctumus diurno continuatus labor est: the day breaks, lucescit; illucescit; dilucescit; lux oritur: for many months there is no day, multis mensibus dies non cernitur: it is broad day, clara dies est: the day is far advanced, multus dies est: when it was already broad day, or when the day was already far advanced, multo die: it is eight days to-day, hic est octavus dies: to the day (= at or by any appointed day). in or ad diem; ad diem dictum, statutum or constitutum; in diem certum: to sleep till it is broad day, ad lucem dormitare; in medios dies dormire: to wish anybody good day, aliquem salvum esse jubere; aliquem salutare: good-day, salve or (if several are addressed) salvete: to make a day (= a merry day) of it, diem festum agere: a good day (in a fever), dies intermissionis: a bad day (in a fever), dies accessionis febris: a lucky day, dies albus or candidus: an unlucky day, dies ater or ominosus: a space of two, three, four days, biduum; triduum; quatriduum: three whole days, totum or universum triduum: every other day, alternis diebus: from day to day, in dies: day after day, diem ex die; diem de die (☞ not de die in diem): every day quotidie (occurring every day): in dies singulos or in dies (when there is daily increase or decrease). To be waiting or expecting day after day, diem ex die exspectare: to put off day after day, diem de die differre; aliquid in diem ex die ditferre: the evil is gone by for to-day, or deferred to another day, malum abiit in diem: to ask for anything for a day, aliquid rogare in diem: promised by such a day, in diem promissus (e.g., pecunia): to make but one meal a day, in dies singulas escas edere (Plaut.): but for a day (= for a very short time), in diem (e.g., natura flores in diem gignit, Cic.): five times a day, quinquies in die (Plin.): several times a day, saepius in die (Plin.): to make very few verses a day, paucissimos die versus facere (Quint.). ☞ Dies is also used for “the events, etc., of a day;” e.g., poenas ejus diei dare (Cic.); totum diem mecum scrutari (Sen., ): Within a few days, paucis diebus: within the last few days, his diebus; per hos dies (Cic.): after a few days, a few days afterward, post paucis diebus (Liv.); paucis post diebus (Sulp. ap. Cic.); paucis diebus interjectis (Liv.). after nearly 40 days, prope XL diebus interpositis: to pay on the day, in diem solvere: a bill payable at twenty-one days [Vid: BILL]: every day (= upon every day), in omnes dies: the day before, pridie: the day after, postridie; postridie ejus diei: the day before his arrival, pridie adventum.

Space of time in which persons are living: Up to our own days, usque ad hoc tempus; adhuc; usque adhuc; hodie (e.g., we have retained it up to our own days, retinemus id hodie (Cic.): nowadays, hodie; hoc tempore; his temporibus; nunc: even at the present day, hodie (which then generally stands first in its clause, unless an emphatic verb precedes, as in id quod retinemus hodie, Cic., Rep., 2, 9, 15); hodie quoque; hodie etiam (☞ hodieque does not occur, in this sense, in Cic., or even in Livy, ; but it occurs in Cic. at the beginning of a clause where que = “and.” In Velleius and later writers, it is found = hodie quoque: hodienum and hodiedum are barbarous, Hand, Turs., 3, 100, etc.): this very day (= immediately), hodie (Cic., Fragm., Or. pro Tullius, 53, p.66, Beier.): and this very day, hodieque (Hirt., B, Afr., 54). Our own days, nostra aetas: the men of our own days, homines nostrae aetatis; homines, qui nunc vivunt: in our (own) days, nostra aetate; nostro tempore; nostris temporibus: in anybody’s latter days, in senectute: to spend one’s days in ease, in want, vitam degere in otio, in egestate: to end one’s days, diem supremum obire.

Order of the day, perhaps edictum: to publish an order of the day, edictum proponere: that, etc., edicere, ut or ne.

FIG., To be the order of the day, vigere (e.g., pro pudore, pro virtute audacia, avaritia vigebant).