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serene
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /s???i?n/
- (US) IPA(key): /s???in/
- Rhymes: -i?n
Etymology 1
From Middle English, borrowed from Latin ser?nus (“clear, cloudless, untroubled”).
Adjective
serene (comparative more serene or serener, superlative most serene or serenest)
- Peaceful, calm, unruffled.
- Without worry or anxiety; unaffected by disturbance.
- (archaic) fair and unclouded (as of the sky); clear; unobscured.
- 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- Full many a gem of purest ray serene / The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear.
- 1751, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- Used as part of certain titles, originally to indicate sovereignty or independence.
Related terms
- all serene
- serenity
Translations
Verb
serene (third-person singular simple present serenes, present participle serening, simple past and past participle serened)
- (transitive) To make serene.
Noun
serene (plural serenes)
- (poetic) Serenity; clearness; calmness.
- 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer
- the serene of heaven
- 1742, Edward Young, Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality
- To their master is denied / To share their sweet serene.
- 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer
- Evening air; night chill.
- Some serene blast me.
Etymology 2
Old French serein (“evening”), Vulgar Latin *ser?num (from substantive use of s?rum, neuter of s?rus (“late”)) + -?nus suffix.
Noun
serene (plural serenes)
- A fine rain from a cloudless sky after sunset.
Synonyms
- serein
References
- Oxford English Dictionary. serein n. 1.
Anagrams
- reseen, resene
Dutch
Pronunciation
Adjective
serene
- Inflected form of sereen
Esperanto
Etymology
serena +? -e
Adverb
serene
- calmly, serenely
Italian
Adjective
serene
- feminine plural of sereno
Latin
Etymology 1
From ser?nus +? -?.
Adverb
ser?n? (comparative ser?nius, superlative ser?nissim?)
- clearly, brightly
Etymology 2
Adjective
ser?ne
- vocative masculine singular of ser?nus
References
- serene in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Portuguese
Verb
serene
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of serenar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of serenar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of serenar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of serenar
Spanish
Verb
serene
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of serenar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of serenar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of serenar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of serenar.
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divine
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: d?-v?n?, IPA(key): /d??va?n/
- Rhymes: -a?n
Etymology 1
From Old French divin, from Latin d?v?nus (“of a god”), from divus (“god”).
Adjective
divine (comparative more divine, superlative most divine)
- Of or pertaining to a god.
- Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.
- Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.
- Beautiful, heavenly.
- (obsolete) Foreboding; prescient.
- (obsolete, of souls) immortal; elect or saved after death
- 1632, Thomas Heywood, The Iron Age, Part 2:
- (Of that at lea?ure) but the bloody ?tage
On which to act, Generall this night is thine,
Thou lye?t downe mortall, who mu?t ri?e diuine.
- (Of that at lea?ure) but the bloody ?tage
- 1632, Thomas Heywood, The Iron Age, Part 2:
- Relating to divinity or theology.
- church history and other divine learning
Synonyms
- (of or pertaining to a god): deific, godlike, godly
- (eternal, holy): hallowed, holy, sacred
- (of superhuman or surpassing excellence): supreme, ultimate
- (beautiful, heavenly): beautiful, delightful, exquisite, heavenly, lovely, magnificent, marvellous/marvelous, splendid, wonderful
Antonyms
- (of or pertaining to a god): undivine, ungodly
- (eternal, holy): godless, secular, ungodly
- (of superhuman or surpassing excellence): humdrum, mediocre, ordinary
- (beautiful, heavenly): horrible, horrid, nasty, unpleasant
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
divine (plural divines)
- One skilled in divinity; a theologian.
- 1668, John Denham, The Progress of Learning
- Poets were the first divines.
- 1668, John Denham, The Progress of Learning
- A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.
- December 22, 1820, John Woodbridge, Sermon preached in Hadley in commemoration of the landing our fathers at Plymouth
- The first divines of New England […] were surpassed by none in extensive erudition.
- December 22, 1820, John Woodbridge, Sermon preached in Hadley in commemoration of the landing our fathers at Plymouth
- (often capitalized, with 'the') God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept.
Synonyms
- (theologian, cleric): clergyman, cleric, man of the cloth, theologian
- (a deity): deity, god, God, Allah (Muslim)
Derived terms
- archdivine
- school-divine
Translations
Etymology 2
Replaced Middle English devine, devin from Middle French deviner, from Latin d?v?n?.
Verb
divine (third-person singular simple present divines, present participle divining, simple past and past participle divined)
- (transitive) To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.
- 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
- a sagacity which divined the evil designs
- 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
- (transitive) To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night
- no secret can be told
To any who divined it not before
- no secret can be told
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 43
- If in the loneliness of his studio he wrestled desperately with the Angel of the Lord he never allowed a soul to divine his anguish.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 250c.
- I suppose that we truly are divining that what is is some third thing when we say that change and stability are.
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night
- (transitive) To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.
- To render divine; to deify.
- c. 1591-1592, Edmund Spenser, Daphnaïda. An Elegy upon the Death of the Noble and Vertuous Douglas Howard, Daughter and Heire of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and Wife of Arthure Gorges Esquier
- Living on earth like angel new divined.
- c. 1591-1592, Edmund Spenser, Daphnaïda. An Elegy upon the Death of the Noble and Vertuous Douglas Howard, Daughter and Heire of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and Wife of Arthure Gorges Esquier
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Related terms
- a lo divino
- baculus divinatorius
- divinistre
- Divinópolis
- Divinópolis de Goiás
- La Divina
- lectio divina
- Liposcelis divinatorius
- Salvia divinorum
- São José do Divino
- virgula divina
- voce divinare
Anagrams
- dive in
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.vin/
- Rhymes: -in
Adjective
divine
- feminine singular of divin
Italian
Adjective
divine
- feminine plural of divino
Latin
Etymology
From d?v?nus (“of divine origin”)
Adverb
d?v?n? (comparative d?v?nius, superlative d?v?nissim?)
- prophetically, by divine inspiration
- divinely, admirably
Synonyms
- (divinely, admirably): d?v?nitus
Related terms
- d?v?n?ti?
- d?v?nit?s
- d?v?nitus
- d?v?n?
- d?v?nus
References
- divine in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- divine in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- divine in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)
Spanish
Verb
divine
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of divinar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of divinar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of divinar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of divinar.
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