divine的词源

英文词源

pine: pine: [14] Like deity, pine comes ultimately from Indo-European *deiwos, an ancestor whose godly connotations seem to have developed from earlier associations with ‘sky’ and ‘day’, and which probably originally meant ‘shining’. Its Latin descendants included deus ‘god’ (source of English deity) and the adjective dīvus ‘godlike’ (the noun use of its feminine form, dīva, for ‘goddess’ entered English via Italian as pa ‘prima donna’ [19]).

From dīvus was derived the further adjective dīvīnus, which became Old French devin and eventually English pine. Dīvīnus was used as a noun meaning, in classical times, ‘soothsayer’ (whence, via the Latin derivative dīvīnāre, the English verb pine) and in the Middle Ages ‘theologian’ (whence the nominal use of English pine in the same sense).
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pine (adj.): c. 1300, from Old French devin (12c.), from Latin pinus "of a god," from pus "a god," related to deus "god, deity" (see Zeus). Weakened sense of "excellent" had evolved by late 15c.
pine (v.): "to conjure, to guess," originally "to make out by supernatural insight," mid-14c., from Old French deviner, from Vulgar Latin *devinare, dissimilated from *pinare, from Latin pinus (see pine (adj.)), which also meant "soothsayer." Related: Divined; piner; pining. Divining rod (or wand) attested from 1650s.
pine (n.): c. 1300, "soothsayer," from Old French devin, from Latin pinus (adj.); see pine (adj.). Meaning "ecclesiastic, theologian" is from late 14c.