diverse English · revision 6556

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1297|origins=la diverto}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /daɪˈvɜːs/, /ˈdaɪ.vɜːs/ ''(UK)''; /daɪˈvɝs/, /ˈdaɪ.vɝs/ ''(US)''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a variant of [[divers]], Middle English divers, [[bor|fro|divers]] and directly [[m|la|dīversus|t=turned different ways]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024)^(NODE 1998) the past participle of [[m|la|dīverto|alt=dīvertere|t=to turn aside]] (see [[divert]]).^(MWU 2024) The final -e may have been added on the model of [[converse]], [[traverse]] and [[adverse]].^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(SOED 2002)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Different in character, not alike: 1297 in the OED,^(OED 1989) about 1300 in Barnhart, as separate or distinct.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Various or varied is from before 1333.^(Barnhart 1988) In Middle English it could also mean disagreeable or hostile (mid-14th century),^(Etymonline) and perverse or adverse (1393).^(OED 1989) The separation of diverse, different, from divers, several, in spelling and meaning prevailed after about 1700.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) The sense of including people of previously under-represented groups, as a ''diverse workforce'', is from the 1990s.^(Etymonline) [[diversity|alt=Diversity]] is from about 1340.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1297 – different in kind.^(OED 1989)

+ * before 1333 – various.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1393 – perverse (obsolete).^(OED 1989)

+ * c. 1700 – diverse distinguished from divers.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1990s – inclusive of minorities.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Showing a great deal of [[variety]]; very different from one another.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # Including people of many different backgrounds or identities.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[diversely]]

+ * [[diverseness]]

+ * [[divers]]

+ * [[overdiverse]]

+ * [[undiverse]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[divert]]

+ * [[diversity]]

+ * [[diversify]]

+ * [[diversion]]

+ * [[versatile]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}