What does “dis” mean in this sentance:
“Dis meam fortunam committo.”
I have no clue what it means, I don’t think I’ve ever seen it before. I’m sure somebody here should know. Thanks in advance.
dative pl. of deus, I think
“I commit my fortune to the gods.”
might be singular
dis = divis, from divus -a -um, “divine”, or “the gods” as a noun
Cf. Aeneid, 6.124-131, where the Sybil tells Aeneas that the descent into hell is easy, it’s the return that is the hard part:
divum = divorum
Dis geniti potuere = those born of the gods could do it.
Luckily it says “Dis genitus” on Aeneas’ driver’s license, so they didn’t give him any trouble coming back up from the underworld. 
deus has some variants in its plural forms:
Nominative: dii or di (rarely dei)
Dative and ablative: diis or dis (rarely deis)
I don’t think, however, that dis can possibly be singular.
And the above is what my L+S said. I wasn’t sure if the entry was telling me that there was some odd singular form though.
I’ll have to look into divus too.
Hi Tim,
Please report what you find on divus 
I guess that the -vu- dropping out might be metrical phenomenon… Syncope perhaps?
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