Translation
divorce
Word origin
From Latin divortium, a separation, from divertere 'to turn aside', made of dis- 'apart' and vertere 'to turn'. Two people who divorce are, in the Latin picture, turning away from one another and taking different roads.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- divortium
- English cognates
- divorce, divert, diverse, vertebra
Examples
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After the divorce she lived alone.
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Nobody expected their divorce.
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The divorce cost a lot of money.
No seam here either, and the shape invites one: - looks as though it might be di- plus something, or end in a suffix -orc-. Esperanto has neither. The whole root came over from Latin through French divorce in one piece, and everything else in the family is built on it: divorci to divorce, i to grant a divorce (what the court does), divorcinto a divorced person.
Both spouses take the verb: divorcis they got divorced, and divorcis she divorced him, with for the person left behind. The vocabulary around it is regular Esperanto - edzo husband, edzino wife, edziĝi to marry - so once you have the whole domestic-law corner of the dictionary is open to you.
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