divorce
Definitions
The legal ending of a marriage.
离婚。
A complete separation between two things.
（两者间的）彻底分离，脱离。
To legally end a marriage with someone.
与……离婚。
To separate or keep apart (two ideas or things).
使分离，使脱离。
Root Breakdown
Root-deriveddi- (apart) + vorce, from Latin divortium (vertere, to turn) = 'a turning apart.' Two roads that fork were a divortium; the same image named the turning-apart of a married couple. The -vorce spelling preserves vortere, a sister form of vertere.
Root vers still carries 91 more wordsWhy It Means This
Divorce hides a vers/vert connection most people never notice. Latin divortium described a place where roads or rivers 'turned apart' and went separate ways. Romans applied that fork-in-the-road image to a couple parting — two lives that had run together now turning off in different directions. The unusual -vorce spelling comes from vortere, an older variant of vertere.
Common Collocations
- 1.get a divorce离婚
- 2.file for divorce提出离婚诉讼
- 3.divorce proceedings离婚诉讼
- 4.divorce settlement离婚协议
Example Sentences
- 1.
After ten years of marriage, they decided to divorce.
- 2.
She filed for divorce last spring.
- 3.
You cannot divorce economics from politics.