Picture something that belongs to a god — it comes down from above, carries a glow that ordinary things don't have, and seems to know or reach things people can't.

可以想成「跟神有關、從神那邊來的」那種感覺:它不是普通的東西,帶著一層人間沒有的光,好像掌握著凡人不知道的事。這個字底下所有意思,不管是形容詞還是動詞,都繞著「屬於神/像神一樣」在轉。

From the word’s history

From Latin divinus 'of a god', from divus/deus 'god'. The same root gives divinare 'to foresee as if inspired by a god', which is where the verb 'to divine (sense, guess)' comes from — so the god-adjective and the guessing-verb are one family.

來自拉丁文 divinus「屬於神的」,字根 divus/deus 就是「神」。同一個根長出 divinare「像受神啟示一樣預見未來」,這正是動詞 divine(察覺、猜出)的來源。所以「神聖的」這個形容詞跟「看出、探測」這個動詞,其實是同一家人:都在講「像神那樣知道人所不知的事」。

etymonline.com/word/divine, etymonline.com/word/divination

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

原始詞典資料16 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Divinename

  • 1

    A surname.

divineadj詞源 1/dɪˈvaɪn/

  • 1

    Of or pertaining to a god.

    • a divine being
    • divine existence
  • 2

    Eternal, holy, or otherwise godlike.

    • divine power
  • 3

    Of superhuman or surpassing excellence.

    • divine skill
    • Divine decadence darling!
  • 4

    Beautiful, heavenly.

  • 5

    obsoleteForeboding; prescient.

    • Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, / Misgave him.
  • 6

    obsoleteimmortal; elect or saved after death

    • Now Thomas Mowbray do I turne to thee, And marke my greeting well: for what I ſpeake, My body ſhall make good vpon this earth, Or my diuine ſoule anſwer it in heauen.
    • (Of that at leaſure) but the bloody ſtage On which to act, Generall this night is thine, Thou lyeſt downe mortall, who muſt riſe diuine.
  • 7

    Relating to divinity or theology.

    • church history and other divine learning

divinenoun詞源 1/dɪˈvaɪn/

  • 1

    One skilled in divinity; a theologian.

    • Poets were the first divines.
  • 2

    A minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman.

    • December 22, 1820, John Woodbridge, Sermon preached in Hadley in commemoration of the landing our fathers at Plymouth The first divines of New England […] were surpassed by none in extensive erudition.
  • 3

    God or a god, particularly in its aspect as a transcendental concept.

divineverb詞源 2/dɪˈvaɪn/

  • 1

    To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination.

    • a sagacity which divined the evil designs
    • Darest thou […] divine his downfall?
  • 2

    To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight.

    • no secret can be told To any who divined it not before
    • If in the loneliness of his studio he wrestled desperately with the Angel of the Lord he never allowed a soul to divine his anguish.
  • 3

    To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod.

  • 4

    To render divine; to deify.

    • Living on earth like angel new divined.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。