A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

divus,-a,-um (adj.A), also dius,-a-um (adj.A) [= Gk. dios]: godlike, divine, “an epithet applied to anything deified or of extraordinary excellence or distinction;” “after the Augustan period divus became a frequent ‘epithet for the deceased Roman emperors’ in the historians, and on coins and inscriptions” (Lewis & Short); noble, beautiful, fine; “belonging to the gods” (Stearn 1996);

- sententia Catonis diva, the excellent opinion of Cato.

- [lichen] Ad rupes cataractarum in amne “la Valogne” Vogesorum inventum a divo Dr. Demangeon; ad saxa granitosa aprica simul ac rorida, ex Dr. Mougeot in litt. (Nyl.), on rocks of cataracts found in the [rapidly flowing] stream “la Valogne” of the Vosges by the excellent [divine?] Dr. Demangeon; on granitose stones exposed [i.e. to the sun, unshaded] and at the same time wet [i.e. as with dew, perhaps spray from the Valogne], according to Dr. Mougeot in correspondence.

NOTE: the use of the epithet ‘divus’ may indicate that Demangeon was not alive when this passage was written.

As substantive, divus,-i (s.m.II), abl.sg. divo; diva,-ae (s.f.I): a god, a goddess, a deity; “a saint” (Stetten).

- Decembri mense, in nemore Monialium Divae Ursulae (Mich.), in the December month, in the grove of the nuns of Saint Ursula.

- Sacellum,-i (s.n.II) Divi Stephani, the shrine (chapel) of Saint Stephan.

- Extra portam Divi Міniatis inter muscos tempore praedicto, & in moeniorum urbis nostrae rimis, ante horrea in loco dicto l’Uccello etiam erumpit (Mich.), beyond the gate of Saint Miniatus among mosses in the time already mentioned, and in the cracks in the (fortified) walls of our city [i.e. Florence], before the granary in the place called ‘l’Uccello’ it also sprouts out.

NOTE: [Saint Minias, also Minas and Miniatus, to whom the church of San Miniato al Monte is dedicated, Florence]

Dium,-dii (s.n.II), abl. sg. dio: sub dio, and sub diu, in the open air, = divum,-i (s.n.II), the sky; see divum,-i (s.n.II).