diversus

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diˈversus/
• Rhymes: -ersus
• Syllabification: di‧ver‧sus

Verb

diversus

1. conditional of diversi

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁

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Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu.

Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-

Proto-Italic *dis-

Latin dis-

Proto-Indo-European *wert-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *-etor

Proto-Indo-European *wértetor

Proto-Italic *wertō

Latin vertō

Latin dīvertō

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Italic *-os

Archaic Latin -os

Latin -us

Latin dīversus

Perfect passive participle of dīvertō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [diːˈwɛr.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [diˈvɛr.sus]

Adjective

dīversus (feminine dīversa, neuter dīversum, superlative dīversissimus, adverb dīversē); first/second-declension adjective

1. opposite

   Synonym: adversus

2. separate, apart
3. diverse, different

   Synonym: differēns

4. hostile

   Synonyms: āversus, hostīlis, īnfestus, inimīcus, īnfēnsus, oblīquus, adversus, inīquus

   Antonyms: affābilis, amīcābilis, facilis, benevolēns

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	dīversus	dīversa	dīversum		dīversī	dīversae	dīversa
genitive	dīversī	dīversae	dīversī		dīversōrum	dīversārum	dīversōrum
dative	dīversō	dīversae	dīversō		dīversīs
accusative	dīversum	dīversam	dīversum		dīversōs	dīversās	dīversa
ablative	dīversō	dīversā	dīversō		dīversīs
vocative	dīverse	dīversa	dīversum		dīversī	dīversae	dīversa

Derived terms

• dīversitās

Related terms

• dīverrō
• dīvertō

Descendants

• Old French: divers
  • French: divers
  • Anglo-Norman: divers
    • → Middle English: diverse
      • English: diverse
      • Scots: diverse
      • → Cornish: divers
• Old Spanish: divieso
  • Spanish: divieso

Borrowings

• → Catalan: divers
• → Galician: diverso (learned)
• → German: divers
• → Italian: diverso (learned)
• → Piedmontese: divers
• → Portuguese: diverso (learned)
• → Romanian: divers
• → Spanish: diverso (learned)

References

• “diversus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “diversus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "diversus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “diversus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • they disperse in different directions: in diversas partes or simply diversi abeunt, discedunt