different between dives vs fives

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): /fa?vz/
• Rhymes: -a?vz

Noun

fives

1. plural of five

fives pl (plural only)

1. (chiefly Britain) a ball game, somewhat like tennis, played against a wall.
2. (poker slang) A pair of fives.
3. (Britain, prison slang) The cells located on the fourth floor.

   Coordinate terms: ones, twos, threes, fours

Translations

See also

• bunch of fives