diver

See also: díver and дівер

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English dive

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-os?

Proto-Indo-European *-o-

Proto-Indo-European *-so-

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂so-

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂s(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-āsijos

Proto-Italic *-āsios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

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Latin -ārius

Old French -ierbor.

Middle English -er

English -er

English diver

From dive + -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪ̯və(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -aɪvə(ɹ)

Women synchronized diving, Halle (Saale). (2020)

Noun

diver (plural divers)

1. Someone who dives, especially as a sport.

   Synonym: (obsolete) urinator

   • 1979 August 25, “Body Found Near the Fenway”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 6, page 2:

     A passerby noticed the man's body protruding from the water at about 9 p.m. and Boston and Metropolitan police divers were called to the scene.

2. Someone who works underwater; a frogman.
3. (UK, Ireland) loon (Gavia spp.)
4. A New Zealand sand diver (Tewara cranwellae)
5. A long-finned sand diver (Limnichthys polyactis)
6. (London, dated) A passenger carrying vehicle using an underground route; specially, a diver tram, one using the former Kingsway tramway subway (1906-1952).
7. (slang, obsolete) A pickpocket.
8. (sports) A competitor in certain sports who is known to regularly imitate being fouled, with the purpose of getting his/her opponent penalised.

Derived terms

• autem diver
• black-diver (Phalacrocoracidae spp.)
• black-throated diver (Gavia arctica)
• Cartesian diver
• cave diver
• deep diver
• diverless
• dumpster diver, dumpster-diver
• dun diver (Gavia stellata)
• earth-diver
• free-diver
• graveldiver (Scytalina cerdale)
• great northern diver (Gavia immer)
• hell-diver (Tachybaptus ruficollis)
• muff diver, muff-diver
• Pacific diver (Gavia pacifica)
• paradiver
• pearl diver
• red-throated diver
• ruddy diver (Oxyura jamaicensis)
• sand diver
• sat diver, saturation diver
• scuba diver
• skin-diver
• skydiver
• smoke diver
• spider diver (Tachybaptus ruficollis)
• sportdiver
• sport diver
• stage diver
• synchronized diver
• web diver
• white-billed diver (Gavia adamsii)

Translations

underwater

• Arabic: غَطَّاس m (ḡaṭṭās), غَوَّاص m (ḡawwāṣ)
• Armenian: ջրասուզակ (hy) (ǰrasuzak)
• Assamese: ডুবাৰু (dubaru)
• Azerbaijani: dalğıc (az)
• Bulgarian: гмуркач m (gmurkač)
• Catalan: bus (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 潛水員 / 潜水员 (zh) (qiánshuǐyuán)

• Czech: potápěč (cs) m, potápěčka f
• Danish: dykker (da) c
• Dutch: duiker (nl) m, duikster (nl) f
• Esperanto: plonĝanto, plonĝantino (female), plonĝisto, plonĝistino (female), subakvisto, subakvistino (female)
• Estonian: sukelduja
• Faroese: kavari m
• Finnish: sukeltaja (fi)
• French: plongeur (fr) m, plongeuse (fr) f
• Galician: mergullador (gl) m, mergulladora f
• German: Taucher (de) m, Taucherin (de) f (underwater)
• Greek: δύτης (el) m (dýtis)
• Hebrew: צוֹלֵל (he) m (tolel)
• Hindi: ग़ोताख़ोर m (ġotāxor), गोताखोर (hi) m (gotākhor)
• Hungarian: búvár (hu)
• Icelandic: kafari (is) m
• Italian: tuffatore (it) m, tuffatrice (it) f, tuffista m or f, palombaro (it) m, palombara (it) f, sommozzatore (it) m, sommozzatrice (it) f
• Japanese: 潜水夫 (ja) (せんすいふ, sensuifu), 潜り (ja) (もぐり, moguri), ダイバー (ja) (daibā)
• Kalmyk: булхач (bulxaç)
• Korean: 잠수부(潜水夫) (ko) (jamsubu) (underwater), 다이버 (daibeo)
• Latin: ūrīnātor m, ūrīnātrīx f
• Luxembourgish: Daucher m
• Macedonian: нуркач m (nurkač)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stuper m (in sport), dykker m (underwater)

  Nynorsk: stupar m (in sport), dukkar m, dykkar (nn) m (underwater)

• Polish: nurek (pl) m
• Portuguese: mergulhador (pt) m, mergulhadora f
• Romanian: scufundător (ro) m, scafandru (ro) m, scafandrier (ro) m
• Russian: ныря́льщик (ru) m (nyrjálʹščik), ныря́льщица (ru) f (nyrjálʹščica), водола́з (ru) m (vodoláz), водола́зка (ru) f (vodolázka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ро̀нилац m, гњу́рац m

  Latin: rònilac (sh) m, gnjúrac (sh) m

• Spanish: buzo (es) m or f, submarinista (es) m or f, buceador (es) m, búzano m, escafandrista m or f
• Swedish: dykare (sv) c
• Tagalog: maninisid
• Thai: นักกระโดดน้ำ (nák-grà-dòot-náam)
• Turkish: dalgıç (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: طالغج (dalgıc)

• Turkmen: guwwas
• Ukrainian: водола́з m (vodoláz), норе́ць m (norécʹ)
• Vietnamese: thợ lặn (vi)

jumping

• Spanish: clavadista f, zambullidor (es) m, zabullidor (es) m

someone who works underwater

• Armenian: ջրասուզակ (hy) (ǰrasuzak)
• Bulgarian: водолаз (bg) m (vodolaz)
• Catalan: bus (ca) m or f, bussejador m, bussejadora f
• Esperanto: subakvisto, subakvistino (female), plonĝisto, plonĝistino (female)
• Estonian: tuuker
• Finnish: sukeltaja (fi)
• Galician: mergullador (gl) m, mergulladora f
• Hebrew: אָמוֹדַאי (he) m (amodai), צוֹלֵל (he) m (tsolel)
• Hindi: ग़ोताख़ोर m (ġotāxor), गोताखोर (hi) m (gotākhor)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dykker m

  Nynorsk: dukkar m, dykkar (nn) m

• Russian: водола́з (ru) m (vodoláz), водола́зка (ru) f (vodolázka)
• Spanish: somorgujador m
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: طالغج (dalgıc)

• Vietnamese: thợ lặn (vi)

Gavia — see loon

sports: player who pretends fouls

• Spanish: piscinero m, piscinera f

See also

• diving
• scuba

References

• (pickpocket): John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• Verdi, deriv., drive, rived, vired

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• dȅver (Ekavian)
• djȅver (Ijekavian)
• đȅver (Montenegro)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *děverь.

Noun

dȉver m anim (Cyrillic spelling ди̏вер)

1. (Chakavian, Ikavian) brother-in-law (one's husband's brother)