Last week marked 8,888 days since my spouse and I married. When I announced it on Facebook, I was curious to know if there was a word similar to anniversary, but for days instead of years.
A few years ago, I wrote an article on words for so-called month anniversaries. That was prompted by the fact that, technically, anniversary refers to annual commemorations, not monthly.
This time around, just as I knew that anniversary doesn’t refer to months, I knew that it didn’t refer to days.
I couldn’t find a word with widespread usage. But I did find a few people who suggested that we use dieversary. This is based on the Latin dies (which means day) and versus (which means to turn).
When you search for dieversary on Google, you get barely 250 results. It most definitely is not widespread.
However, I noticed that when I search, Google asked me if I meant diaversary. And when I clicked on that, it gave me nearly 50,000 more results.
However, Diaversery appears to be the term people with diabetes use to commemorate the day they were diagnosed with diabetes.
So, it looks as though our word for day anniversaries—dieversary—has a homonym. If you do use dieversary, be sure you spell it correctly, or you might be giving people the wrong idea.
