Diva Diva A diva (; ) is a celebrated female singer; a woman of outstanding talent in the world of opera, and by extension in theatre, cinema and popular music. The meaning of "diva" is closely related to that of "prima donna". The word entered the English language in the late 19th century. It is derived from the Italian noun "diva", a female deity. The plural of the word in English is "divas"; in Italian, "dive" . The basic sense of the term is "goddess", the feminine of the Latin word "divus" (Italian "divo"), someone deified after death, or Latin "deus",
Danu (Irish goddess) "*Danu" is derived from the same root as Latin "bonus" (Old Latin "duenos"), from Proto-Indo-European "*dueno-" "good", via a Proto-Celtic nominative singular n-stem "*Duonū" ("aristocrat"). Danu has no myths or legends associated with her in any surviving medieval Irish texts, but she has possible parallels with the Welsh literary figure Dôn, whom most modern scholars regarded as a mythological mother goddess in the medieval tales of the Mabinogion, despite the fact that Dôn's gender is never specified in the tales and was regarded as a man by some medieval Welsh antiquarians. Danu (Irish goddess) In Irish mythology, Danu (; modern