Di
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Di may refer to:
- The diminutive form of the name Diana, Diane and Dianne. Dai is the Welsh diminutive form of the name David.
- Diana, Princess of Wales.
- Di (ethnic group) (氐), an ancient ethnic group in China.
- di-, a Greek numerical prefix meaning "twice", "double" or "two".
- Di, a Latin word for "gods" and the plural of the word deus—variant plurals include dei and dii. The feminine form is deae ("goddesses"). This word may refer to a number of beings in Roman religion, including:
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- Dii Consentes, the twelve major deities, Romanized from the Greek Twelve Olympians: Jupiter, Juno, Neptune, Minerva, Mars, Venus, Apollo, Diana, Vulcan, Vesta, Mercury and Ceres.
- Di Conserentes, deities who presided over procreation.
- Di Conservatores, gods believed to have saved or preserved the worshiper during a difficult time.
- Di indigetes, ancient indigenous gods of the Romans who predated the later ones adopted from other mythologies.
- Di Inferi, underworld gods, honored every five years in the Ludi Taurei.
- Di Manes, the collective spirits of the dead.
- Di Nixi, goddesses of childbirth.
- Di Parentes, ancestor spirits worshiped during the Parentalia.
- Di Penates, household gods.
- Di, one of the 8 departments of the Sourou Province of Burkina Faso.
- Dizi, a Chinese musical instrument.
- Shangdi, a Chinese deity.
- Di, Italian for of or from.
- Judge Di or Dee, a partially fictitious Chinese magistrate and detective.
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