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名詞

dives

1. plural of dive

動詞

dives

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of dive

アナグラム

• vides, vised, viséd

語源

From or related to Proto-Indo-European *deywós, the same source as deus (“god”) and dīvus (“divine”). Originally meaning “favored by the gods, blessed, divine”. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Particularly: “The suffix is unexplained.”

Compare typologically Russian бога́тый (bogátyj), бог (bog).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈdiː.wɛs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈdiː.ves]

形容詞

dīves (genitive dīvitis, comparative dīvitior, superlative dīvitissimus); third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem)

1. rich, wealthy

   Synonyms: opulentus, opulēns, locuplēs

   Antonyms: inops, egēns, exiguus, pauper

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 22.16.4:

     Inclusus inde videri Hannibal via ad Casilinum obsessa, cum Capua et Samnium et tantum ab tergo divitum sociorum Romanis commeatus subveheret, Poenus inter Formiana saxa ac Literni arenas stagnaque et per horridas silvas hibernaturus esset.

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   • c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 7.10.5:

     "At nunc," inquit, "videre est philosophos ultro currere, ut doceant, ad fores iuvenum divitum eosque ibi sedere atque opperiri prope ad meridiem, donec discipuli nocturnum omne vinum edormiant."

     "But now", he said,"it is common to see philosophers run on their own accord to the doors of rich young men to teach, and for them to sit there and wait nearly to noon, until the students sleep off all the night's wine.

2. (e.g. of land) productive, fertile, abundant with riches

   Synonyms: fecundus, fertilis, frūgifer, ūber, opīmus, dītis

   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Medea 65:

     Lucinam nivei femina corporis
     intemptata iugo placet; et asperi
     Martis sanguineas quae cohibet manus,
     quae dat belligeris foedera gentibus
     et cornu retinet divite copiam,
     donetur tenera mitior hostia.

     • 2018 translation by John G. Fitch

       An unyoked female of snow-white body must appease Lucina; and she who restrains the bloodstained hands of savage Mars, who grants treaties to warring nations and stores abundance in her rich horn, as gentler, should be given a tender victim.

3. sumptuous, costly, splendid, precious

   Synonyms: pretiōsus, cārus, antīquus, impēnsus

   Antonym: vīlis

   • 77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia VII.XXX.108:

     Itaque Alexander Magnus—etenim insignibus iudiciis optume citraque invidiam tam superba censura peragetur—inter spolia Darii Persarum regis unguentorum scrinio capto quod erat de auro margaritis gemmisque pretiosum, varios eius usus amicis demonstrantibus, quando tacdebat unguenti bellatorem et militia sordidum, ' Immo Hercule,' inquit, ' librorum Homeri custodiae detur,' ut pretiosissimum humani animi opus quam maxime diviti opere servaretur.

     • Translation by Howard Rackham, 1961 edition, page 576f.

       Alexander the Great—for so lordly an assessment will be effected best and least invidiously by the most supreme tribunals—when among the booty won from the Persian King Darius there was a case of unguents made of gold and enriched with pearls and precious stones, and when his friends pointed out the various uses to which it could be put, since a warrior soiled with warfare had no use for perfume, said, "No, by Hercules, rather let it be assigned to keeping the works of Homer"—so that the most precious achievement of the mind of man might be preserved in the richest possible product of the craftsman's art.

4. talented

語形変化

Third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem).

See also dīs. Ablative singular dīvitī occurs in Pliny; see the above quote.

名詞

dīves m (genitive dīvitis); third declension

1. a rich man

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

See also dīs.

参照

• “dives”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dives”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "dives", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “dives”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to raise a man from poverty to wealth: aliquem ex paupere divitem facere
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 173-174

Further reading

• Lazarus and Dives on Wikipedia

発音

• IPA: /diːvz/, /daɪvz/, /dɪvz/

接尾辞

-dives

1. (no longer productive) islands, archipelago.

   Laccadives, Maldives

派生語

使用する際の注意点

Terms formed with the -dives suffix are usually followed by definite article the. For example, the Maldives.