dives

See also: Dives

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪvz/

Noun

dives

1. plural of dive

Verb

dives

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of dive

Anagrams

• vides, vised, viséd

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Latin

Alternative forms

• dīs

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *deywós, the same source as deus (“god”) and dīvus (“divine”). Originally meaning "favored by the gods, blessed, divine".

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdiː.u̯es/, [ˈd̪iːu̯ɛs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.ves/, [ˈd̪iːves]

Adjective

dīves (genitive dīvitis, comparative dīvitior, superlative dīvitissimus); third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem)

1. rich, wealthy
2. (of land) productive, fertile
3. talented

Usage notes

• In Plinius' Naturalis Historia the ablative singular dīvitī occurs:

  Plinius, Naturalis Historia, liber VII. In: Pliny Natural History with an English translation in ten volumes Volume II Libri III–VII By H. Rackham, 1961, page 576f.:

  itaque Alexander Magnus—etenim insignibus iudiciis optume citraque invidiam tam superba censura peragetur—inter spolia Darii Persarum regis unguentorum scrinio capto quod erat de² auro margaritis gemmisque pretiosum, varios eius usus amicis demonstrantibus, quando tacdebat unguenti bellatorem et militia sordidum, ' Immo Hercule,' inquit, ' librorum Homeri custodiae detur,' ut pretiosissimum humani animi opus quam maxime diviti opere servaretur.

  ² V.ll. erat, erato : erat elato ? Detlefsen.

  Consequently Alexander the Great—for so lordly an assessment will be effected best and least invidiously by the most supreme tribunals—when among the booty won from the Persian King Darius there was a case of unguents made of gold and enriched with pearls and precious stones, and when his friends pointed out the various uses to which it could be put, since a warrior soiled with warfare had no use for perfume, said, "No, by Hercules, rather let it be assigned to keeping the works of Homer"—so that the most precious achievement of the mind of man might be preserved in the richest possible product of the craftsman's art.

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem).

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	dīves			dīvitēs	dīvita
Genitive	dīvitis			dīvitum
Dative	dīvitī			dīvitibus
Accusative	dīvitem	dīves		dīvitēs	dīvita
Ablative	dīvite			dīvitibus
Vocative	dīves			dīvitēs	dīvita

Noun

dīves m (genitive dīvitis); third declension

1. a rich man

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dīves	dīvitēs
Genitive	dīvitis	dīvitum
Dative	dīvitī	dīvitibus
Accusative	dīvitem	dīvitēs
Ablative	dīvite	dīvitibus
Vocative	dīves	dīvitēs

References

• “dives”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dives”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dives 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)
• dives in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to raise a man from poverty to wealth: aliquem ex paupere divitem facere
    

Further reading

• Lazarus and Dives on Wikipedia