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{{also|Divine|diviné}}
==English==
{{wikipedia}}

===Pronunciation===
* {{enPR|dĭ-vīnʹ}}, {{IPA|en|/dɪˈvaɪn/}}
* {{audio|en|en-us-divine.ogg|a=US}}
* {{rhymes|en|aɪn|s=2}}

===Etymology 1===
{{root|en|ine-pro|*dyew-}}
From {{uder|en|fro|divin}}, from {{uder|en|la|dīvīnus||of a god}}, from {{m|la|divus||god}}. Displaced native {{ncog|ang|godcund}}.

====Adjective====
{{en-adj}}

# Of or pertaining to a [[god]].
#: {{syn|en|deific|godlike|godly}}
#: {{ant|en|undivine|ungodly}}
# [[eternal|Eternal]], [[holy]], or otherwise [[godlike]].
#: {{syn|en|hallowed|holy|sacred}}
#: {{ant|en|godless|secular|ungodly}}
# Of [[superhuman]] or surpassing excellence.
#: {{syn|en|supreme|ultimate}}
#: {{ant|en|humdrum|mediocre|ordinary}}
# [[beautiful|Beautiful]], [[heavenly]].
#: {{syn|en|beautiful|delightful|exquisite|heavenly|lovely|magnificent|[[marvellous]]/[[marvelous]]|splendid|wonderful}}
#: {{ant|en|horrible|horrid|nasty|unpleasant}}
# {{lb|en|obsolete}} Foreboding; prescient.
#* {{RQ:Milton Paradise Lost|book=8|passage=Yet oft his heart, '''divine''' of something ill, / Misgave him.|year=1873}}
# {{lb|en|obsolete|of souls}} [[immortal]]; [[elect]] or [[saved]] after [[death]]
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Richard 2|I|i|23|1|Now ''Thomas Mowbray'' do I turne to thee,<br>And marke my greeting well: for what I ſpeake,<br>My body ſhall make good vpon this earth,<br>Or my '''diuine''' ſoule anſwer it in heauen.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1632|author=w:Thomas Heywood|title=The Iron Age, Part 2
|passage=(Of that at leaſure) but the bloody ſtage<br>On which to act, Generall this night is thine,<br>Thou lyeſt downe mortall, who muſt riſe '''diuine'''.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1703|author=Charles Povey|title=Meditations of a Divine Soul: Or, the Chriſtian’s Guide, Amidſt the Various Opinions of a vain World|page=594|passage=Then rouſe up, my '''Divine''' Soul, who art ready for Eternal Glory, and bid the World a final ''A-dieu'', with all its fond Deluſions and gilded Baits of Folly: For the time is now at hand, when thou my moſt precious Jewel, muſt launch out into the Deep of Everlaſting Bliſs}}
# Relating to [[divinity]] or [[theology]].
#* {{RQ:South Twelve Sermons|passage=church history and other '''divine''' learning}}

=====Alternative forms=====
* {{alter|en|Divine}}

=====Derived terms=====
{{col-auto|en|antidivine|demidivine|divinelike|divinisation|divinish|divinization|metadivine|nondivine|superdivine
|all-divine|argument from divine hiddenness|Book of Divine Worship|[[w:Divine Science|The Church of Divine Science]]|countenance divine|[[w:Divine Adoratrice of Amun|Divine Adoratrice of Amun]]|divine afflatus|''[[w:The Divine Comedy|The Divine Comedy]]''|divine coincidence|divine command theory|divine contentment|divine countenance|divine fallacy|divine grace|divine guidance|divine healing|divine inspiration|divine intervention
|{{l|en|divine judgement}}, {{l|en|divine judgment}}|divine kings|divine kingship|divine lady|divine language|divine law|[[w:Divine Life Society|Divine Life Society]]|Divine Liturgy|divinely|Divine Mercy Sunday|divine messenger|Divine Mind|Divine Mother|divine move|Divine Mystery|divineness|{{l|en|Divine Office}}, {{l|en|divine office}}|divine polity|The [[Divine Praises]]|divine proportion|Divine Providence|divine ratio|divine retribution|divine revelation|divine right|divine rule|divine section|divine service|divine simplicity|divine spark|divinesse|[[w:Divine Unity|Divine Unity]]|divine will healing|[[w:Divine Word Missionaries|Divine Word Missionaries]]|Feast of the Divine Mercy|[[w:Gate of Divine Might|Gate of Divine Might]], [[w:Gate of Divine Prowess|Gate of Divine Prowess]]|indivine|Mother Divine|Revelation of Saint John the Divine|{{l|en|semi-divine}}, {{l|en|semidivine}}|[[w:Society of the Divine Savior|Society of the Divine Savior]]|subdivine|to err is human, to forgive divine|undivine|undivinelike}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|of or pertaining to a god}}
* Afrikaans: {{t|af|goddelik}}
* Albanian: {{t+|sq|hyjnor|m}}, {{t|sq|hyjnore|f}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|إِلٰهِيّ}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|бо́скі}}, {{t|be|бо́жы}}
* Bengali: {{t|bn|এলাহী}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|боже́ствен}}, {{t|bg|бо́жи}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|diví}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|神|tr=shén de|alt=神的}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|božský}}, {{t+|cs|boží}}
* Danish: {{t|da|guddommelig}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|goddelijk}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|taivaallinen}}, {{t+|fi|jumalallinen}}, {{t|fi|taivainen}}
* French: {{t+|fr|divin|m}}, {{t+|fr|divine|f}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|divino|m}}
* German: {{t+|de|göttlich}}
* Gothic: {{t|got|𐌲𐌿𐌳𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|θεϊκός|m}}, {{t+|el|θείος|m}}
*: Ancient: {{t|grc|θεῖος}}, {{qualifier|Epic}} {{t|grc|δῖος}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|אֱלֹהִי|tr=elohi}}
* Hindi: {{t|hi|दैवीय}}
* Hungarian: {{q|using the possessive}} {{t+|hu|Isten}}/{{t+|hu|isten}}, {{q|forming a compound word}} {{t+|hu|Isten|alt=Isten-…}}/{{t+|hu|isten|alt=isten…}}, {{t+|hu|isteni}}
* Icelandic: {{t+|is|guðdómlegur}}
* Indonesian: {{t+|id|ilahi}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|divino|m}}, {{t+|it|divina|f}}
* Kazakh: {{t|kk|иләһи}}
* Latin: {{t+|la|divinus|m}}, {{t+|la|divus|m}}
* Lithuanian: {{t|lt|dieviškas}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|божествен}}, {{t|mk|божји}}
* Malay: {{t|ms|tuhan}}, {{t|ms|ketuhanan}}, {{t|ms|ilahi}}, {{t|ms|ilahiah}}
* Manx: {{t|gv|jeeoil}}, {{t|gv|niauoil}}, {{t|gv|flaunyssagh}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|guddommelig}}
*: Nynorsk: {{t|nn|guddommeleg}}, {{t|nn|guddomleg}}
* Occitan: {{t+|oc|divin}}
* Old English: {{t|ang|godcund}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|boski}}, {{t+|pl|boży}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|divino}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|боже́ственный}}, {{t+|ru|бо́жий}}
* Sanskrit: {{t+|sa|दिव्य}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|божа̀нскӣ}}, {{t|sh|бо̏жјӣ}}
*: Roman: {{t+|sh|božànskī}}, {{t+|sh|bȍžjī}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|boží}}, {{t|sk|božský}}
* Slovene: {{t|sl|božánski}}, {{t|sl|božji}}
* Sorbian:
*: Lower Sorbian: {{t|dsb|bóžy}}, {{t|dsb|bogojski}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|divino}}
* Swahili: {{t|sw|-a kimungu}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|andlig}}, {{t+|sv|gudomlig}}, {{t+|sv|helig}}, {{t+|sv|himmelsk}}
* Tagalog: {{t|tl|binathala}}, {{t|tl|dibino}}, {{t|tl|mabathala}}
* Telugu: {{t|te|దైవ}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|ilahi}}
* Ukrainian: {{t+|uk|боже́ственний}}, {{t+|uk|бо́жий}}
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{{trans-top|eternal, holy or otherwise godlike}}
* Afrikaans: {{t|af|goddelik}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|إِلٰهِيّ}}
* Bengali: {{t|bn|এলাহী}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|боже́ствен}}, {{t+|bg|свръхесте́ствен}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|ylimaallinen}}, {{t+|fi|pyhä}}
* German: {{t+|de|göttlich}}
* Gothic: {{t|got|𐌲𐌿𐌳𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍃}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|θεϊκός|m}}, {{t+|el|θείος|m}}
*: Ancient: {{t|grc|θεῖος}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|isteni}}, {{t|hu|istenszerű}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|divino|m}}, {{t+|it|divina|f}}
* Lithuanian: {{t|lt|dieviškas}}
* Manx: {{t|gv|jeeoil}}, {{t|gv|niauoil}}, {{t|gv|flaunyssagh}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|guddommelig}}
* Old English: {{t|ang|godcund}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|divino}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|боже́ственный}}, {{t+|ru|сверхъесте́ственный}}
* Sanskrit: {{t+|sa|दिव्य}}
* Slovene: {{t|sl|božánski}}
* Sorbian:
*: Lower Sorbian: {{t|dsb|bóžy}}, {{t|dsb|bogojski}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|andlig}}, {{t+|sv|helig}}, {{t+|sv|övernaturlig}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|lahuti}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|надісто́тний}}, {{t+|uk|боже́ственний}}
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{{trans-top|of superhuman or surpassing excellence}}
* Afrikaans: {{t|af|goddelik}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|боже́ствен}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|yli-inhimillinen}}, {{t+|fi|jumalainen}}
* French: {{t+|fr|divin|m}}, {{t+|fr|divine|f}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|divino|m}}
* German: {{t+|de|göttlich}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|θείος|m}}
* Hebrew: {{t|he|נשגב|m|sc=Hebr}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|isteni}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|divino|m}}, {{t+|it|divina|f}}
* Latin: {{t+|la|divinus|m}}
* Lithuanian: {{t|lt|dieviškas}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|guddommelig}}, {{t|nb|vidunderlig}}
* Old English: {{t|ang|godcund}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|divino}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|боже́ственный}}, {{t+|ru|богоподо́бный}}
* Sanskrit: {{t+|sa|दिव्य}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|gudomlig}}, {{t+|sv|härlig}}, {{t+|sv|underbar}}
* Thai: {{t+|th|บัณฑิต}}, {{t|th|เหนือมนุษย์}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|богоподі́бний}}, {{t|uk|надісто́тний}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|beautiful, heavenly}}
* Afrikaans: {{t|af|goddelik}}
* Albanian: {{t+|sq|hyjnor|m}}, {{t|sq|hyjnore|f}}
* Bengali: {{t|bn|আসমানী}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|небе́сен}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|diví}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|jumalainen}}, {{t+|fi|taivaallinen}}
* French: {{t+|fr|divin|m}}, {{t+|fr|divine|f}}
* German: {{t+|de|göttlich}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|θεσπέσιος|m}}, {{t+|el|θεϊκός|m}}, {{t+|el|θαυμάσιος|m}}, {{t+|el|θεϊκός|m}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|אֱלֹהִי|tr=elohi}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|isteni}}, {{t+|hu|felséges}}/{{t+|hu|fenséges}}, {{t+|hu|mennyei}}, {{t+|hu|pompás}}
* Indonesian: {{t+|id|surgawi}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|divino|m}}, {{t+|it|divina|f}}
* Lithuanian: {{t|lt|dieviškas}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|guddommelig}}, {{t|nb|himmelsk}}, {{t|nb|vidunderlig}}
* Old English: {{t|ang|godcund}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|divino}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|боже́ственный}}
* Slovene: {{t|sl|božanski}}
* Sorbian:
*: Lower Sorbian: {{t|dsb|bóžy}}, {{t|dsb|bogojski}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|divino}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|gudomlig}}, {{t+|sv|himmelsk}}, {{t+|sv|underbar}}
* Ukrainian: {{t+|uk|боже́ственний}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{checktrans-top}}
* Turkish: {{t+check|tr|ilahi}}
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====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# One skilled in [[divinity]]; a [[theologian]].
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1668|author={{w|John Denham (poet)|John Denham}}|title=The Progress of Learning
|passage=Poets were the first '''divines'''.}}
# 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.
# {{lb|en|often capitalized, with 'the'}} [[God]] or a [[god]], [[particularly]] in its [[aspect]] as a [[transcendental]] [[concept]].

=====Synonyms=====
* {{sense|theologian|cleric}} {{l|en|clergyman}}, {{l|en|cleric}}, {{l|en|man of the cloth}}, {{l|en|theologian}}
* {{sense|a deity}} {{l|en|deity}}, {{l|en|god}}, {{l|en|God}}, {{l|en|Allah}} {{qualifier|Muslim}}

=====Derived terms=====
* {{l|en|archdivine}}
* {{l|en|school-divine}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|theologian, cleric}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|رَجُلُ دِينٍ|m}}, {{t|ar|رِجالُ دِينٍ|m-p}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|богослов|m}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|teologi}}, {{t|fi|jumaluusoppinut}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|θεολόγος|m}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|teológus}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|divino|m}}, {{t+|it|divina|f}}
* Manx: {{t|gv|agglishagh|m}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|богосло́в|m}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|andlig|c}}
* Ukrainian: {{t+|uk|богосло́в|m}}, {{t|uk|тео́лог|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-see|a minister of the gospel; a priest; a clergyman|priest|clergyman}}

{{trans-see|a deity|deity}}

{{checktrans-top}}
* Estonian: {{t-check|et|jumalik}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===Etymology 2===
Replaced [[Middle English]] {{m|enm|devine}}, {{m|enm|devin}} from {{der|en|frm|deviner}}, from {{der|en|la|dīvīnō}}.

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[foretell]] (something), especially by the use of [[divination]].
#* {{RQ:Bancroft United States
|passage=a sagacity which '''divined''' the evil designs}}
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Richard 2|III|iv|passage=Darest thou {{...}} '''divine''' his downfall?}}
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[guess]] or [[discover]] (something) through [[intuition]] or [[insight]].
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1874|author=[[w:James Thomson (B. V.)|James Thomson]]|title=[[:w:City of Dreadful Night|The City of Dreadful Night]]
|passage=no secret can be told<br>To any who '''divined''' it not before}}
#* {{RQ:Maugham Moon and Sixpence|[[s:The Moon and Sixpence/Chapter XLIII|chapter 43]]||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.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=2005|author=w:Plato|title=[[S:Sophist|Sophist]]|translator=Lesley Brown|section=[[w:Stephanus pagination|250c]]
|passage=I suppose that we truly are '''divining''' that what is is some third thing when we say that change and stability are.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To search for ([[underground]] objects or water) using a [[divining rod]].<!--note: "dowse" is intransitive and so is not a synonym-->
# To render divine; to [[deify]].
#* {{RQ:Spenser Daphnaida
|passage=Living on earth like angel new '''divined'''.}}

=====Derived terms=====
{{col4|en
|divinable
|divined<!--adjective-->
|divinement
|diviner
|divineress
|divining<!--noun, adjective-->
|[[divinise]], [[divinize]]
|divinister
}}

=====Related terms=====
{{col4|en|collapse=n
|divinail
|divinal
|divination
|divinator
|divinatorial
|divinatory
|divinatrice
|divinify
|divinipotent
|[[divinise]], [[divinize]]
|divinistre
|divinity<!--related to "divine", not derived from it-->
|{{w|Divinópolis}}
|predivine
}}
{{col4|en|title=Expressions
|''[[a lo divino]]'' (cf. ''{{w|a lo divino}}'')
|baculus divinatorius
|{{w|Divinópolis de Goiás}}
|{{w|La Divina}} {{q|Maria Callas}}
|''[[lectio divina]]''
|{{taxlink|Liposcelis divinatorius|species}}
|{{taxlink|Salvia divinorum|species}}
|{{w|São José do Divino}}
|virgula divina
|voce divinare
}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|foretell (something)}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|предсказвам}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|預言|tr=yùyán}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|waarzeggen}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|ennustaa}}, {{t|fi|[[nähdä]] [[tulevaisuus|tulevaisuuteen]]}}
* French: {{t+|fr|prédire}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|adiviñar}}
* German: {{t+|de|prophezeien}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|μαντεύω|m}}
*: Ancient: {{t|grc|μαντεύομαι}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|jósol}}, {{t+|hu|megjósol}}
* Latin: {{t|la|hariolor}}
* Neapolitan: {{t|nap|addivinà}}
* Occitan: {{t+|oc|endevinar}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|adivinhar}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|гада́ть|impf}}, {{t+|ru|погада́ть|pf}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|adivinar}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|förutsäga}}, {{t+|sv|profetera}}
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{{trans-top|guess (something)}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|гадая}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|arvata}}, {{t+|fi|aavistaa}}
* French: {{t+|fr|deviner}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|adiviñar}}
* German: {{t+|de|erraten}}, {{t+|de|erahnen}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|μαντεύω}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|sejt}}, {{t+|hu|megsejt}}, {{t+|hu|megérez}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|indovinare}}
* Occitan: {{t+|oc|devinar}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|adivinhar}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|adivinar}}
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{{trans-top|search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|wichelen}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|[[etsiä]] [[vettä]] [[varpu#Finnish|varvun]] [[avulla]]}}
* Hungarian: {{t|hu|[[varázsvessző]]vel [[víz|vizet]]/[[forrás]]t [[keres]]/[[talál]]}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=deiinv|dive in}}

==French==

===Pronunciation===
* {{fr-IPA}}
* {{rhymes|fr|in|s=2}}

===Adjective===
{{head|fr|adjective form}}

# {{feminine singular of|fr|divin}}

==Italian==

===Adjective===
{{head|it|adjective form}}

# {{feminine plural of|it|divino}}

==Latin==

===Etymology===
From {{m|la|dīvīnus||of divine origin}}.

===Adverb===
{{la-adv|dīvīnē}}

# [[prophetically]], by [[#English|divine]] [[inspiration]]
# [[divinely]], [[admirably]]

====Synonyms====
* {{sense|divinely, admirably}} {{l|la|dīvīnitus}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|la|dīvīnātiō}}
* {{l|la|dīvīnitās}}
* {{l|la|dīvīnitus}}
* {{l|la|dīvīnō}}
* {{l|la|dīvīnus}}

===References===
* {{R:L&S}}
* {{R:Elementary Lewis}}
* {{R:Gaffiot}}
* Charlton T. Lewis ('''1891''') ''An Elementary Latin Dictionary'', 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)

==Spanish==

===Verb===
{{head|es|verb form}}

# {{es-verb form of|divinar}}