diverge

See also: divergé

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin dīvergō (“bend away from, go in a different direction”), from Latin dī- + vergō (“bend”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /daɪˈvɜːd͡ʒ/, /dɪˈvɜːd͡ʒ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɪˈvɝd͡ʒ/, /daɪˈvɝd͡ʒ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /dɑɪˈvɜːd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ

Verb

diverge (third-person singular simple present diverges, present participle diverging, simple past and past participle diverged)

1. (intransitive, literally, of lines or paths) To run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
   • 1916, Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken” (poem), in Mountain Interval:

     Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both / […]

2. (intransitive, figuratively, of interests, opinions, or anything else) To become different; to run apart; to separate; to tend into different directions.
   • 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 28:

     The brooding, black-clad singer bridged a stark divide that emerged in the recording industry in the 1950s, as post-Elvis pop singers diverged into two camps and audiences aligned themselves with either the sideburned rebels of rock 'n' roll or the cowboy-hatted twangsters of country music.

   Both stories start out the same way, but they diverge halfway through.

3. (intransitive, literally, of a line or path) To separate, to tend into a different direction (from another line or path).

   The sidewalk runs next to the street for a few miles, then diverges from it and turns north.

   • 2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Leisure and pleasure on the Far North Line”, in RAIL, number 942, page 49:

     North of Tain [...], the line reaches the southern shore of Dornoch Firth. Here, the railway and the A9 trunk road, which have hitherto run close together, diverge.

4. (intransitive, figuratively, of an interest, opinion, or anything else) To become different, to separate (from another line or path).

   The software is pretty good, except for a few cases where its behavior diverges from user expectations.

5. (intransitive, mathematics, of a sequence, series, or function) Not to converge: to have no limit, or no finite limit.

   The sequence $x_{n}=n^{2}$ diverges to infinity: that is, it increases without bound.

Antonyms

• converge

Derived terms

• codiverge
• divergement
• divergence

 

• divergent

Translations

to run apart

• Armenian: տարամիտել (hy) (taramitel)
• Bulgarian: отклонявам се (otklonjavam se)
• Catalan: divergir (ca)
• Dutch: divergeren (nl), uiteenwijken (nl), uiteenlopen (nl)
• Esperanto: diverĝi (eo)
• Finnish: erkaantua (fi), erkanee, erota (fi)
• French: diverger (fr)
• German: divergieren (de), auseinandergehen (de), auseinander gehen, auseinanderstreben, auseinanderlaufen (de), auseinanderbewegen, auseinanderklaffen (de), sich auseinanderentwickeln, abbiegen (de), divergieren (de), sich teilen, abweichen (de), sich entfernen von, sich wegentwickeln von, umlenken (de)
• Greek: αποκλίνω (el) (apoklíno)
• Hungarian: elágazik (hu), szétágazik (hu), különválik (hu), szétválik (hu), elválik (hu), eltér (hu)
• Maori: tihoi, tangongi
• Polish: rozchodzić się (pl), rozbiegać się, rozdzielać się (pl)
• Portuguese: divergir (pt)
• Russian: отклоня́ться (ru) (otklonjátʹsja), расходи́ться (ru) (rasxodítʹsja)
• Sanskrit: ह्वरति (sa) (hvarati)
• Spanish: divergir (es)

to have no limit

• Armenian: տարամիտել (hy) (taramitel)
• Bulgarian: не се схождам (ne se shoždam)
• Czech: divergovat
• Finnish: hajaantua (fi)
• French: diverger (fr)
• German: divergieren (de)
• Hebrew: התבדר (he) (hitbadér)
• Hungarian: divergál (hu), széttart (hu)
• Polish: rozbiegać
• Russian: расходи́ться (ru) (rasxodítʹsja)
• Swedish: divergera (sv)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Ido: ^{(please verify)} divergar (io)

Anagrams

• grieved

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.vɛʁʒ/

• Audio:

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Verb

diverge

1. inflection of diverger:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diˈvɛr.d͡ʒe/
• Rhymes: -ɛrdʒe
• Hyphenation: di‧vèr‧ge

Verb

diverge

1. third-person singular present indicative of divergere

Latin

Verb

dīverge

1. second-person singular present active imperative of dīvergō

Portuguese

Verb

diverge

1. inflection of divergir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French diverger, from Latin dīvergō.

Verb

a diverge (third-person singular present diverge, past participle divers) 3rd conj.

1. to diverge

Conjugation

    conjugation of diverge (third conjugation, past participle in -s)

infinitive			a diverge
gerund			divergând
past participle			divers
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	diverg	divergi	diverge	divergem	divergeți	diverg
	imperfect	divergeam	divergeai	divergea	divergeam	divergeați	divergeau
	simple perfect	diversei	diverseși	diverse	diverserăm	diverserăți	diverseră
	pluperfect	diversesem	diverseseși	diversese	diverseserăm	diverseserăți	diverseseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să diverg	să divergi	să diveargă	să divergem	să divergeți	să diveargă
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		diverge			divergeți
	negative		nu diverge			nu divergeți

Spanish

Verb

diverge

1. inflection of divergir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative