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divis

divis is a Latin form of divus, meaning “divine; deified; god”. It is the ablative plural neuter adjective or ablative plural masculine adjective or dative plural neuter adjective or dative plural feminine adjective.

It can also be a form of dives, “rich, wealthy”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 69 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1.63: … s a te modo mentio facta est, sophistes temporibus illis vel maximus, cum in principio libri sic posuisset de divis neque ut sint neque ut non sint habeo dicere, Atheniensium iussu urbe atque agro est exterminatus librique ei …

Horace, Carmina 4.5.1: Divis orte bonis, optume Romulae

Plautus, Amphitruo 2.2.635: ita dívis est plácitum, volúptatem ut maéror comés consequátur:

All forms of divus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.