Etymology

divitis

D2I1V4I1T1I1S1

Today it means: The practice of authoring web-page code with many div elements in place of meaningful semantic HTML elements. Full definition →

English div ← Iranian Persian دیوْ (div) ← Middle Persian 𐫅𐫏𐫇 (dyw /⁠dēw⁠/)
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*dyew-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*deywós
  3. Proto-Indo-Iranian*daywás
  4. Proto-Iranian*daywáh
  5. Old Persian𐎭𐎡𐎺 (d-i-v /⁠daivaʰ⁠⁠/)
  6. Middle Persian𐫅𐫏𐫇 (dyw /⁠dēw⁠/)
  7. Iranian Persianدیوْ (div)
  8. Englishdiv
  9. English todaydivitis

From div + -itis.

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