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divinus
divinus
Latin
Etymology
From dīvus (“divine, of a god”) + -īnus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /diːˈwiː.nus/
Adjective
dīvīnus m (feminine dīvīna, neuter dīvīnum); first/second declension
- divine, of a deity, superhuman, supernatural
Inflection
First/second declension.
| 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 | |
- comparative: divinior, superlative: divinissimus
Synonyms
- (divine): dīvus
Derived terms
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Descendants
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, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “divinus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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)
- to study the commonplace: cogitationes in res humiles abicere (De Amic. 9. 32) (Opp. alte spectare, ad altiora tendere, altum, magnificum, divinum suspicere)