diva Latin · revision 31193

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=c. 235–200 BC, Naevius|origins=ine-pro *deywós}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈdiː.wa], [ˈdiː.waː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈdiː.va], [ˈdiː.va]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dīva''' ''f'' (genitive dīvae, masculine dīvus); first declension^(Wiktionary)

+ Inscriptions have ''deiv-'' and a genitive ''deuas''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the feminine of [[m|la|dīvus|t=divine; god]], Old Latin ⟨deivā⟩, [[inh|itc-pro|*deiwā|t=goddess]], the feminine of [[m|itc-pro|*deiwos|t=god]], from [[ine-pro|*deywós|t=god]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan notes Old Latin ⟨deiva⟩ at Pisaurum in the 3rd century BC and compares [[osc|deívaí|t=to the goddess]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Naevius' epitaph is its earliest example in the OLD: “the divine Camenae would weep for the poet Naevius”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a goddess, often with a name or title in apposition, as Varro's and Virgil's ''dīva Venus''.^(OLD 2012) Under the Empire it was applied to deified women of the imperial family, as Tacitus' flatterers voting Poppaea's dead daughter the honour of a goddess.^(OLD 2012) ''Bona Dīva'' is a name of the ''Bona Dea''.^(OLD 2012) Köbler finds it in glossaries and medieval texts.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius' epitaph of the Camenae.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81/79–52/50 BC – Catullus.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus of a deified member of the imperial family.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|goddess]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A deified woman of the imperial family.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[dīvus]]

+ * [[dea]]

+ * [[deus]]

+ * [[dīvīnus]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Dea'' is the ordinary word for “goddess”, which Wiktionary compares.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}