diverse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈvɜːs/
ipa: /ˈdaɪ.vɜːs/
ipa: /daɪˈvɝs/
ipa: /ˈdaɪ.vɝs/
ipa: /dɪˈvɝs/
ipa: /ˈdəˈvɝs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: diverses
form: diversing
form: diversed
form: diversed
Etymology: From Middle English diversen (“to differ, diverge; to become different, change; to vary; to change or vary (something); to make a distinction, distinguish; to divert”), from Anglo-Norman diverser, Middle French diverser, and Old French diverser (“to alter, change; to differ, diverge; to disagree”), from Late Latin diversare (“to differ”), and then either:
* a frequentative form of Latin dīvertere, the present active infinitive of dīvertō (see etymology 1); or
* from dī- (variant of dis- (prefix meaning ‘apart, in two’)) + versāre (the present active infinitive of versō (“to alter, change; to keep turning, whirl”), a frequentative form of vertō: see etymology 1).
Sense 1 (“synonym of diversify”) became obsolete in the 16th century, and was probably recoined in the 20th century.
Senses: examples: text: I Dyuerſe[,] I make difference⸝ Ie diuerſifie, prime coniu.
ref: 1530 July 28 (Gregorian calendar), Iohan Palsgraue [i.e., John Palsgrave], “The Table of Verbes”, in Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse⸝ […], [London]: […] [Richard Pynson] fynnysshed by Iohan Haukyns, →OCLC, 3rd boke, folio ccxvi, recto, column 2; reprinted Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, October 1972, →OCLC:
text: In the Eocene, when the Old World and American mammal fauna were more nearly related, we have a hypothetical genus, Archipithecus, from which diversed a branch giving rise to the platyrhine apes, the families Cebidæ and Hapalidæ.
ref: 1895 November 25 (date delivered), Eugène Dubois, “On Pithecanthropus erectus: A Transitional Form between Man and the Apes”, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume XXV, London: […] [F]or the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., […], published 1896, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 247:
text: Nature does have a way of altering and diversing wetlands, streams and portholes through a period of a long range of years.
ref: 1983 August 10, Bernard Muller, “Written Testimony Submitted to Congressional Hearing on Senate Bill #1329: Senators [James] Abdnor & Chaffee [i.e., John Chafee] at Aberdeen, SD: August 10, 1983”, in Wetland Conservation: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Environmental Pollution of the Committee on Environmental and Public Works, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session on S. 978, a Bill to Extend until October 1, 1993, the Authorization for Appropriations to the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund, and for Other Purposes and S. 1329, a Bill to Extend until October 1, 1993, the Authority for Appropriations to Promote the Conservation of Migratory Waterfowl and to Offset or Prevent the Serious Loss of Wetlands and Other Essential Habitat, and for Other Purposes […] (S. Hrg. 98-421), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 370:
glosses: Synonym of diversify.
To make (something) different or varied in form or quality; to alter, to change, to vary.
examples: text: The investors in the SPC [special purpose company] derive their return, and well as diversing their risk, from three factors.
ref: 2001, Marcel Jeucken, “Sustainability, Markets and Banking Products”, in Sustainable Finance and Banking: The Financial Sector and the Future of the Planet, London; Sterling, Va.: Earthscan Publications, →ISBN, part II (Banking and Sustainability), page 109:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Synonym of diversify.
To make the scope of (business, investments, etc.) different or varied, especially so as to balance and mitigate risks.
examples: text: Then each to other vvell affectionate, / Friendſhip profeſſed vvith vnfained hart, / The Redcroſſe knight diuerſt, but forth rode Britomart.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 62, page 443:
text: We regret that the gentleman diversed so widely from the subject before the committee.
ref: 1960 April 13, Clarence Cannon, “Witness: Hon. Toby Morris, a Representative in Congress from the State of Oklahoma”, in Public Works Appropriations for 1961: Hearings before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-sixth Congress, Second Session […] Part 5: Testimony of Members of Congress, Interested Organizations, and Individuals […], Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 1480:
glosses: To go a different route or way from someone else; to diverge, to separate.