divum

See also: divům

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdiː.wũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈdiː.vum]

Etymology 1

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Nominalization of the neuter singular forms of dīvus (“divine”), compare sub Iove ― under the sky, the heavens (literally, “under Jupiter, god of the sky”).

Noun

dīvum n sg (genitive dīvī); second declension

1. the sky, open air

   sub dīvō ― under the sky, in the open air

   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics III.435:

     Ne mihi tum mollis sub divo carpere somnos
     neu dorso nemoris libeat iacuisse per herbas,
     cum positis novus [Calabris anguis] exuviis nitidusque iuventa
     volvitur, aut catulos tectis aut ova relinquens,
     arduus ad solem et linguis micat ore trisulcis.

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   • 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horace, Odes I.XVIII:

     Non ego te, candide Bassareu,
     invitum quatiam nec variis obsita frondibus
     sub divum rapiam. Saeva tene cum Berecyntio
     cornu tympana, quae subsequitur caecus amor sui
     et tollens vacuum plus nimio gloria verticem
     arcanique fides prodiga, perlucidior vitro.

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   • 121 CE, Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars Vita divi Iuli 72:

     Amicos tanta semper facilitate indulgentiaque tractauit, ut Gaio Oppio comitanti se per siluestre iter correptoque subita ualitudine deuersorioloco, quod unum erat, cesserit et ipse humi ac sub divo cubuerit.

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Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), singular only.

	singular
nominative	dīvum
genitive	dīvī
dative	dīvō
accusative	dīvum
ablative	dīvō
vocative	dīvum

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

dīvum

1. inflection of dīvus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

dīvum

1. inflection of dīvus:
   1. accusative singular
   2. (poetic) genitive plural
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 64.25–27:

     Vos ego saepe meo, uos carmine compellabo,
     Teque adeo eximie taedis felicibus aucte
     Thessaliae columen Peleu, cui Iuppiter ipse,
     Ipse suos divum genitor concessit amores.
     Tene Thetis tenuit pulcherrima Nereine?
     Tene suam Tethys concessit ducere neptem
     Oceanusque, mari totum qui amplectitur orbem?

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References

• “divum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “divum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “divum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.