divinitas Latin · revision 33101

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=ine-pro *dei-u-o-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [diːˈwiː.nɪ.taːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [diˈviː.ni.tas]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''dīvīnitās''' ''f'' (genitive dīvīnitātis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|dīvīnus|-tās|t1=divine]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|dīvīnus]] comes from [[m|la|dīvus|t=divine]], which de Vaan explains as a form of the same stem as [[m|la|deus|t=god]], from [[itc-pro|*deiwo-]] and [[ine-pro|*dei-u-o-|t=god]]; the stem split by regular sound changes, and the two forms were then given different meanings.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Cicero uses it first,^(Köbler 2010) in ''De natura deorum'' of someone who gave divinity to the sun and the moon.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the quality or nature of a god: Livy uses it of the deified Romulus and Suetonius of Augustus.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero also uses it of a godlike excellence, an orator's extraordinary skill in lawsuits,^(OLD 2012) and of the divine power itself, from which the soul receives impressions.^(OLD 2012) Pliny the Elder uses it of the power of foretelling, as the foreknowledge credited to Anaxagoras.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Christian Latin it is the Godhead,^(Stelten 1995) and in Medieval Latin it is theology,^(Niermeyer 1976) the sense with which the English [[m|en|divinity]] first appears.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of the divine nature and of the divine power.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of the deified Romulus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of the power of divination.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * c. 1300 – [[m|en|divinity]] appears in English, as “theology”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The quality or nature of a god, [[m|en|divinity]], [[m|en|godhead]]; godlike excellence.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The divine being or power.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # The faculty of [[m|en|divination|alt=divining]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' [[m|en|theology|alt=Theology]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[deus]]

+ * [[dīvīnātiō]]

+ * [[dīvīnātor]]

+ * [[dīvīnātrīx]]

+ * [[dīvīnē]]

+ * [[dīvīnitus]]

+ * [[dīvīnō]]

+ * [[dīvīnus]]

+ * [[dīvus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}