divergent
/daɪˈvɜːdʒənt/digh-VUR-juhnt
/daɪˈvɝdʒənt/digh-VUR-juhnt
Meaningdiverging
Common meaning: going different ways
- diapart
- vergto bend, slopeLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1974 · scan
- entadjective ending: being or doing
‘apart’ + ‘to bend, slope’ → divergent
Journey through time
- Latinvergō, vergere‘to bend, slope’
- Englishdiverge‘to branch off’
- Englishformed in English from divergedivergent‘going different ways’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
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Origin: Formed in English from diverge + -ent.
Dictionary: Skeat (1898), DIVERGE, p.174 · scan
Roots
- vergō, vergere Latin “to bend, slope”
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