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Ido
Verb
divinus
- conditional of divinar
Latin
Etymology
From dīvus (“divine, of a god”) + -īnus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
dīvīnus (feminine dīvīna, neuter dīvīnum, comparative dīvīnior, superlative dīvīnissimus, adverb dīvīnē); first/second-declension adjective
- divine, of a deity, superhuman, supernatural
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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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, 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)