One way to hold this word: two lines travelling together, reaching one point, and from there leaning away from each other so the gap between them keeps opening. Nothing jumps; the separation is gradual and it starts somewhere you can name. Every use keeps that shape — two trails at a , two languages after a few centuries, two accounts of the same evening, or a row of numbers that never comes home to one value.
From the word’s history
Medieval Latin divergo, from Latin di- (apart) plus vergo (to bend or lean). The literal sense is to bend away in different directions, which is the picture the modern word still carries.
Wiktionary 記的是中世紀拉丁文 dīvergō，由拉丁文 dī-（分開）加上 vergō（傾斜、彎過去）組成，字面上就是「往不同方向彎出去」。今天這個字用的仍然是同一個畫面。
Wiktionary, via packet evidence source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:843365431 — 「From Medieval Latin dīvergō (bend away from, go in a different direction), from Latin dī- + vergō (bend).」
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