What is a diva? And why exactly do we love them so?
We get the word “Diva” from Italian, in which it means “Deity” (specifically a female deity: the divine feminine). Before that it was the Latin word “Divus” (again the divine, the goddess, the being beyond death). “Diva” hopped over into English usage in the late 1800’s. Its original English definition was very much in keeping with the Italian: basically an extremely
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