divus

The term derives from an ancient Italian word meaning “goddess”, which, in turn derives from the feminine form of a Latin word divus, meaning “divine one.”

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Etymology: Italian, literally, goddess, from Latin, feminine of divus divine, god - More at - deity

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Diva is the term derived from the Latin word “divus”, “a divine one”, and in its original use described a woman of exceptional talent, more specifically a great female opera singer.

Archive 2007-07-01 Marina Geigert 2007

He was therefore canonized during his life, and the name of god — divus — became the title or nickname of all the succeeding emperors.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Postquam divus Nerva res oluim insociabiles miscuisset, imperium et libertatem.

The Advancement of Learning 2003

The epithet “divine” (divus, divino) for living poets or artists appears rarely before the sixteenth century

Dictionary of the History of Ideas RUDOLF WITTKOWER 1968

No wonder, then, that the epithet divus, applied in the Middle Ages only to saints, was transferred by the secular urban society of the Renaissance to secular celebrities.

MUSICAL GENIUS EDWARD E. LOWINSKY 1968

Dyaus symbolizes the "bright sky"; from the same primitive Indo-European root come the Latin words _dies_ (day), _deus_ or _divus_

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

Caesarum leguntur: sed ipse divus Iulius, ipse divus Augustus et tulere ista et reliquere. '

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

Would it not read much more civilized, if the annals of the empire were telling us: _Nero, jam divus, leniter dixit: O Seneca, Pundit delectabilis et philosophe laute, quis dubitet te libentissime mihi hodie proferre artocreatem stoicum?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various