diten-ar: (tr.) to detain; withhold, keep back (what belongs to another); -o: detention: withholding; -anto, -ero: holder, possessor (of public property); one who withholds from another. (N.B. not used in sense of imprison, cf. en-karcer-igar). Def.: Konservar til ula evento; II-75. Ex.: Dum milito la guvernerio ordinare ditenas la havaji di rezidanta enemiki. — DEFIS
ditiramb-o: dithyramb. — DEFIRS
distres-o: distress; -krio: cry of d.; -ala signalo: signal of d. — EF
divag-ar: (intr., lit. and fig.) to ramble, wander, rove, stray, divagate. Ex.: Bestii divigas. La divagi di aquofluo. Alkoholiko divagas en sua parolado, t.e. vagas en sua parolado o mem sua pensado, sen ordino nek raciono; III-199. — EFIS
divan-o: divan. V. exp.: Divano ne havas dors-apogilo, ma nur movebla kuseni. Sofao havas dors-apogilo (esas quaze repozlito). Kanapeo esas quaze larja stulego por plura personi, kun dors-apogilo e brakio-apogili; II-647. — DEFIRS
diven-ar: (intr., tr.) to become; to get, grow, pass into some new state or condition; to become of; be the final condition of; quo il -os?: what will he become? or what will become of him? (cf. -esk-). Ex.: Divenar malada, povro, richa, grasa. La homo, diveninta plu saja, agas plu bone. — FI
diverg-ar: (tr.) to diverge (de, ek). Def.: Deviacar, dispersar di un punto a diferanta direcion-o, -i; (fig.) esar ne-konkordanta. Ex.: Lumradii divergas. Divergo di opinioni. Ant.: konvergar. — DEFIS
divers-a: sundry, diverse, several, various; -aji: sundry articles: distinct things, not necessarily different in kind; -eso: diversity; variety, multiplicity. Def.: Qua esas plu multa kam un, ma ne granda nombro. Ex.: Diversa personi. La diversa interesti di la nacioni. La diversa senci di vorto. — DEFIRS
diversion-o: (milit.) diversion; turning aside; -ar: (intr.) to make, cause a d. Def.: Atako (en kombato) por deturnar l'atenco e la fortaji di la enemiko; simila taktiko en la konversado, por deturnar ol de temo jenanta, desagreabla, nekonvenanta, e.c. (Ne konfundenda kun digreso); III-329. — DEFIRS
divertikul-o: (anat.) diverticulum.
divid-ar: (tr., math. and gen.) to divide (ulo, per ulo); maxim granda komuna -anto: greatest common divisor; -ebla: divisible (per); -endo: (math., fin.) dividend. — DEFIRS
divin-ar: (tr.) to divine: guess (by any means); -ajo, -endo: puzzle, poser, riddle (cf. konjektar, pre-dicar). Ex.: Divinar la intenci di ulu. Divinar engimato. Me donas a vu di foyi divinar ol. Divino di la futuro. — EFIS
divizion-o: (milit.) division. — DEFIRS
divorc-ar: (intr.) to be divorced (de); -igar: to divorce; -inta, -into: divorced (person). — EFIS
divulg-ar: (tr.) to divulge; reveal, make known (a secret, news, etc.). — DEFIS
dizastr-o: disaster. Def.: Desfortuno tre granda e subita, generale koncernanta multa homi o tota socio, ex. grava vinkeso, granda incendio, naufrajo; III-324. — EFIS
«djin»: djinn, jinni.
do: (mus.) do: first tone of diatonic scale.
do: (prep.) therefore, then, so, consequently (introduces a conclusion). Ex.: Me pensas, do me existas. Il esas vua patro, do vu devas respektar il. L'alkoholo foligas, do ol esas veneno. — FI
doari-o: jointure, dower, marriage-settlement (provided by the bride-groom or his family; cf. dotar); -ier-ino: dowager. — FI
dobl-ar*: (tr.) to provide a cinema film with a new soundtrack, usually in a different language.
doc-ar: (tr.) to teach; (cf. instruktar, lernar); -ajo: something taught; -ant-aro: teachers (collect.). — L
docent-o: private docent; private teacher or lecturer (university). — DeR
docil-a: docile, tractable. Def.: Facile docebla e duktebla; II-19. Ex.: Skolano docila. Docila kavalo. — EFIS
dodekaedr-o: (geom.) dodecahedron. — DEFIRS
dodekagin-a: (bot.) dodecagynian: having twelve styles. — DEFIS
dodekagon-o*: (geom.) dodecagon. — DEFIRS
dog-o: mastiff. — DF
dogan-o: (institution) customs; -eyo: custom-house, place; -pago, -taxo: custom-duty; -uniono: c. union. — FIS
dogmat-o: dogma; -ifar: to dogmatize. — DEFIRS
dogmatik-o: dogmatics. — DEFIRS
dogr-o: (boat) dogger. — DEFIS
doj-o: (title) doge. — DEFIR
dok-o: dock. Def.: Mar-baseno por konstruktar o reparar navi; baseno cirkondita da kayi o warfi por charjar o descharjar navi. — DEFR
