the act or result of diverging (to tend into different directions) · diversion (tactic used to draw attention away from the real threat or action) · the act of entertaining
çekim: çoğul diversões
köken: Borrowed from Medieval Latin dīversiōnem, from Latin dīversus (“opposite; apart; diverse”), past participle of dīvertō (“to divert; to separate”).
köken: Two derivations appear to have credence. * From noun 痴 (woko → oko, “foolishness, ridiculousness, outrageousness”). The sense development would have been laughable, funny, odd. * Similar to the formation of 床しい (yukashii, “elegant, refined, admirable; reminiscent, in accordance with”) from verb 行く (yuku, “to go”), from the sense of having a quality to make one want to go towards, from verb 招く…
corner beam supporting a section of an outward-sloping roof
çekim: çoğul dēliciae · tamlayan dēliciae
köken: Uncertain whether from Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- (“to flow, run”), as in liqueō, or Proto-Italic *lakiō or *lakʷiō (“I draw, pull”), so dē- + laciō ("to draw away, drain"), of which the base verb is a hapax and possibly a nonce word. The latter root has plenty internal, but no certain external cognates; even so, De Vaan 2008 prefers this on semantic grounds, and k over kʷ due to its absence in…
aile: dēliciāris, dēliciātus
Displuviāta autem sunt, in quibus dēliciae arcam sustinentēs stīllicidia reiciunt
From Dutch sjouw (part-time work), possibly from West Frisian seeuw (“lake”), in the meaning 'to drag goods ashore through the lake'. The meaning 'amusement' developed via 'coincidence, random event', cf. compound words such as drengesjov.