diversus

Latin

Etymology

From divertere

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /diːˈu̯er.sus/, [d̪iːˈu̯ɛrs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /diˈver.sus/, [d̪iˈvɛrsus]

Adjective

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

1. opposite
2. separate, apart
3. diverse, different
4. hostile

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	dīversus	dīversa	dīversum		dīversī	dīversae	dīversa
Genitive	dīversī	dīversae	dīversī		dīversōrum	dīversārum	dīversōrum
Dative	dīversō		dīversō		dīversīs
Accusative	dīversum	dīversam	dīversum		dīversōs	dīversās	dīversa
Ablative	dīversō	dīversā	dīversō		dīversīs
Vocative	dīverse	dīversa	dīversum		dīversī	dīversae	dīversa

Related terms

• dīverrō
• dīvertō

 

Descendants

• Catalan: divers
• English: diverse
• French: divers
• Galician: diverso
• Italian: diverso
• Portuguese: diverso
• Spanish: diverso, divieso

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’s 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