divinus

Ido

Verb

divinus

1. conditional of divinar

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /diːˈu̯iː.nus/, [d̪iːˈu̯iːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate 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
   • 58–49 BCE, Gaius Julius Caesar, chapter 13, in Commentarii de Bello Gallico [Commentaries on the Gallic War], volume VI:

     Illī rēbus dīvīnīs intersunt, sacrificia pūblica ac prīvāta prōcūrant, religiōnēs interpretantur […]

     The former are engaged in things sacred, conduct the public and the private sacrifices, and interpret all matters of religion.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	dīvīnus	dīvīna	dīvīnum		dīvīnī	dīvīnae	dīvīna
genitive	dīvīnī	dīvīnae	dīvīnī		dīvīnōrum	dīvīnārum	dīvīnōrum
dative	dīvīnō	dīvīnae	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

• dīvīna
• dīvīnitās f
• dīvīnitus
• dīvīnō
• dīvīnum

Related terms

• dīva f
• dīvīnātiō f
• dīvīnātor m
• dīvīnātrīx f
• dīvīnē
• dīvum n
• dīvus m

Descendants

• Galician: divino
• Italian: divino
• > Mozarabic: דבינה f (dbynh) (inherited)
• >? Old Occitan: devin, divin
  • Occitan: divin
  • Catalan: diví
• Piedmontese: divin
• Vulgar Latin: *devīnus
  • Old French: devin m
    • Middle French: devin m
      • French: devin m
  • Proto-Brythonic: *dewin
    • Middle Welsh: dewin
      • Welsh: dewin
• → Old French: divin (learned)
  • French: divin
    • → Romanian: divin
  • → English: divine
• → Portuguese: divino
• → Spanish: divino

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^[1], 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)