divinus

divinus

1. conditional of divinar

From Proto-Italic *deiwīnos. By surface analysis, dīvus (“divine, of a god”) +‎ -īnus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [diːˈwiː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [diˈviː.nus]

dīvīnus (feminine dīvīna, neuter dīvīnum, comparative dīvīnior, superlative dīvīnissimus, adverb dīvīnē or dīvīnitus); first/second-declension adjective

1. divine, of a deity, superhuman, supernatural
   • 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Cato Maior de Senectute 12.40:

     “ […] cumque hominī sīve nātūrā sīve quis deus nihil mente praestābilius dedisset, huic dīvīnō mūnerī ac dōnō nihil tam esse inimīcum quam voluptātem; […] .”

     “And since either nature or some god has given [to humankind] nothing more excellent than the mind, there is nothing so hostile to this divine function and gift as is sensual pleasure.”
     (Cicero’s character Cato the Elder quotes the Pythagorean philosopher Archytas of Tarentum.)

   • 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.

First/second-declension adjective.

• (divine): dīvus

• “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, 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)