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.
例文
1. India has always been one of the most religiously diverse countries.
インドは常に宗教信仰が最も多様な国の一つである。
2.people from diverse cultures
異文化背景の人
3.The Judaeo-Christian tradition is diverse ，jumbled，contradictory，at every point inviting inquiry and debate.
ユダヤ-キリスト教の伝統は多様化し、混乱し、矛盾し、さまざまな面で疑問と論争を引き起こす。
4.Davies has managed to pursue his diverse interests in parallel with his fast-moving career.
デイビスは事業が飛躍的に進歩していると同時に、幅広い趣味を放棄していない。
5.The word is now used in a sense diverse from the original meaning.