## Etymology
From French divorcée ('a divorced woman'), feminine past participle of divorcer, from divorce, from Latin divortium ('separation'), from divertere ('to turn aside').

## AI Etymology
Divorcee is from French divorcée ('a divorced woman'), feminine past participle of divorcer, from divorce, from Latin divortium ('separation'), from divertere ('to turn aside'). The ancestry passes through French divorcée, Latin divortium, Latin divertere, and Latin vertere. In present use as a noun, it means "a person who is divorced", keeping the historical formation close to the word's ordinary semantic work. Related words include divorce, divorcement, and divorced. Its contrast set includes spouse, which clarifies the semantic boundary of the modern word.

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