divers

See diver.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪ̯vəz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪ̯vəɹz/

divers

1. plural of diver

See diverse.

• diuers (obsolete)

divers (comparative more divers, superlative most divers)

1. Obsolete spelling of diverse, in the sense of various or assorted.
   • 1551, James A.H. Murray, editor, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society.‎, volume 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1888, Part 1, page 217:

     Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Matthew 4:24:

     :

     And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.

   • 1919, P. G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves:

     Shortly after this I had to go out of town. Divers sound sportsmen had invited me to pay visits to their country places, and it wasn't for several months that I settled down in the city again.

• drives

From Latin dīversus.

divers (feminine diversa, masculine plural diversos, feminine plural diverses)

1. diverse
2. (in the plural) several

• diversificar
• diversitat

• “divers” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “divers” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “divers” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “divers” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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divers (comparative diverser, superlative meest divers or diverst)

1. diverse
2. (in the plural) several

Borrowed from Latin diversus.

• IPA^(key): /di.vɛʁ/

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divers (feminine singular diverse, masculine plural divers, feminine plural diverses)

1. various; varying

• différent

• diverger
• diversement
• diversifier
• diversité

• etymology

• “divers” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• verdis

divers (comparative diverser, superlative am diversesten)

1. various, diverse, miscellaneous

• divers in Duden online

Latin diversus.

divers m (feminine singular diverse, masculine plural divers, feminine plural diverses)

1. various; varying; different