diverse
pronunciation
How to pronounce diverse in British English:
UK [daɪˈvɜːs]
How to pronounce diverse in American English:
US [daɪˈvɜːrs]
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- Adjective:
- many and different
- distinctly dissimilar or unlike
Word Origin
- diverse
- diverse: [13] Diverse is one of a small family of English words, including also divers, divert, and divorce, which come ultimately from Latin dīvertere. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix dis- ‘aside’ and vertere ‘turn’ (source of English verse, version, vertebra, etc and related to worth), and hence meant literally ‘turn aside, turn out of the way’.It developed in various metaphorical directions, however. One was ‘turn one’s husband or wife out of the way’ which, via the variant dīvortere, gave English divorce [14]. The central sense of the verb passed more or less unchanged into English, via French divertir, as divert [15], but its past participle diversus illustrates a further metaphorical strand, in which ‘turned aside’ has become ‘separate, different’.English acquired this via Old French in the 13th century in two distinct forms: masculine divers and feminine diverse. The present-day semantic distinction between the former (‘various, several’) and the latter (‘different’) had established itself by around 1700.=> divert, divorce, verse, version, worth
- diverse (adj.)
- c. 1300, spelling variant of divers (q.v.), perhaps by analogy with converse, traverse, etc. In some cases directly from Latin diversus, and since c. 1700 restricted to the meaning "different in character or quality." Related: Diversely.
Example
- 1. Most would prefer to have diverse sources of borrowing .
- 2. The art reflects my client 's diverse collection of works .
- 3. Because the range of customer experiences types is tremendously diverse .
- 4. The suggested remedies were just as diverse .
- 5. The researchers believe that a more diverse set of genes is a useful survival tool in a heterogeneous environment .