Everything about Diet Assembly totally explained
In
politics, a
diet is a formal
deliberative assembly. The term is derived from
Medieval Latin dietas, and ultimately comes from the Latin
dies, "day". The word came to be used in this sense because assemblies met on a daily basis which is reflected in the
German language use of
Tagung (Meeting) and
-tag (day, as in Montag, or parliament, as in
Bundestag).
Historic uses
In this sense, it commonly refers to the
Reichstag assemblies of the
Holy Roman Empire; see
Reichstag (institution),
Diet of Augsburg,
Diet of Nuremberg,
Diet of Regensburg,
Diet of Speyer and
Diet of Worms.
Since the
Second Peace of Thorn of 1466, a German language
Prussian diet Landtag was held in the lands of
Royal Prussia, a province of Poland in personal union with the
King of Poland.
The assemblies of the
Hungarian nobility, customarily called together every three years in
Pozsony, were also called "Diéta" in the
Habsburg Empire before the
1848 revolution.
The
Riksdag of the Estates was the diet of the four estates of
Sweden, from the 15th century until 1866. The
Diet of Finland was the successor to the Riksdag of the Estates in the
Grand Duchy of Finland, from 1809 to 1906.
The Swiss Diet was known as
Tagsatzung.
In other countries the name of the comparable assembly came from the
generality of
the States:
Current use
The modern German parliament, called the Bundestag, literally means "Federal Diet"; the derivation is that "-tag" (in that form, only used as a second part of a compositum) in German means "assembly," indicating the Latin-derived meaning. The term is rarely if ever translated into English in English-language texts, even on first reference.
The parliaments of the German federated states (Länder) are mostly named Landtag, literally means " State Diet".
The name of the Swedish parliament is the Riksdag, which being cognate to German Reichstag literally means "Assembly of the Realm" or "Assembly of the Empire."
The Japanese Parliament (the Kokkai) is conventionally called the Diet in English, indicating the heavy Prussian influence on the Meiji Constitution, Japan's first modern written constitution.
Some universities refer to the period of formal examination and the conclusion of an academic term as an examination diet.Further Information
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