divinus

divinus

Ido

Verb

divinus

1. conditional of divinar

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Latin

Etymology

From dīvus (“divine, of a god”) +‎ -īnus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /diːˈu̯iː.nus/, [d̪iːˈu̯iːnʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /diˈvi.nus/, [d̪iˈviːnus]

Adjective

dīvīnus (feminine dīvīna, neuter dīvīnum, comparative dīvīnior, superlative dīvīnissimus, adverb dīvīnē); first/second-declension adjective

1. divine, of a deity, superhuman, supernatural

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	dīvīnus	dīvīna	dīvīnum		dīvīnī	dīvīnae	dīvīna
Genitive	dīvīnī	dīvīnae	dīvīnī		dīvīnōrum	dīvīnārum	dīvīnōrum
Dative	dīvīnō		dīvīnō		dīvīnīs
Accusative	dīvīnum	dīvīnam	dīvīnum		dīvīnōs	dīvīnās	dīvīna
Ablative	dīvīnō	dīvīnā	dīvīnō		dīvīnīs
Vocative	dīvīne	dīvīna	dīvīnum		dīvīnī	dīvīnae	dīvīna

Synonyms

• (divine): dīvus

Derived terms

• dīvīnitās
• dīvīnitus
• dīvīna
• dīvīnō
• dīvīnum

Related terms

• dīvīnātiō
• dīvīnātor
• dīvīnātrīx
• dīvīnē
• dīva
• dīvum
• dīvus

Descendants

• Catalan: diví
• Old French: divin
  • French: divin
    • → Romanian: divin
  • → English: divine
• Galician: divino
• Italian: divino
• Occitan: divin
• Piedmontese: divin
• Portuguese: divino
• Spanish: divino
• Vulgar Latin: *devīnus
  • Old French: devin
    • French: devin
  • Proto-Brythonic: *dewin
    • Middle Welsh: dewin
      • Welsh: dewin

References

• “divinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “divinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• divinus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• divinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to study the commonplace: cogitationes in res humiles abicere (De Amic. 9. 32) (Opp. alte spectare, ad altiora tendere, altum, magnificum, divinum suspicere)
    
  • the sovereign power of the gods: numen (deorum) divinum
    
  • ritual; ceremonial: sacra, res divinae, religiones, caerimoniae
    
  • to take part in divine service (of the priest): rebus divinis interesse (B. G. 6. 13)
    
  • to pay divine honours to some one: alicui divinos honores tribuere, habere
    
  • to sacrifice: rem divinam facere (dis)
    
  • after having performed the sacrifice (with due ritual): rebus divinis (rite) perpetratis
    
  • anarchy reigns supreme: omnia divina humanaque iura permiscentur (B. C. 1. 6. 8)