different between dives vs diver

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?da?vz/

Noun

dives

1. plural of dive

Verb

dives

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of dive

Anagrams

• vides, vised, viséd

Latin

Alternative forms

• d?s

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?di?.u?es/, [?d?i?u??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?di.ves/, [?d?i?v?s]

Adjective

d?ves (genitive d?vitis, comparative d?vitior, superlative d?vitissimus); 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 d?vit? 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).

Noun

d?ves m (genitive d?vitis); third declension

1. a rich man

Declension

Third-declension noun.

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, 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.

Further reading

• Lazarus and Dives on Wikipedia

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?da??v??/
• Rhymes: -a?v?(r)

Etymology

dive +? -er

Noun

diver (plural divers)

1. Someone who dives, especially as a sport.

   Synonym: (obsolete) urinator

2. Someone who works underwater; a frogman.
3. (Britain, Ireland) The loon (bird).
4. The New Zealand sand diver.
5. The long-finned sand diver.
6. (Britain, London, dated) A passenger carrying vehicle using an underground route; specially, a diver tram, one using the former Kingsway tramway subway (1906-1952).
7. (slang, obsolete) A pickpocket.
8. (sports) A competitor in certain sports who is known to regularly imitate being fouled, with the purpose of getting his/her opponent penalised.

Derived terms

• free-diver
• pearl diver
• scuba diver

Translations

See also

• diving
• scuba

Anagrams

• Verdi, deriv., drive, rived, vired

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• d?ver (Ekavian)
• dj?ver (Ijekavian)
• ??ver (Montenegrin)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *d?ver?.

Noun

d?ver m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. (Chakavian, Ikavian) brother-in-law (one's husband's brother)