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Re:British divers make contact with missing Thai football team by braythwayt on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @10:01AM (#17450222)
It's true that the word comes from those roots, but the Oxford dictionary you cite says plainly that the definition of the word as it is used today is:

  > Courageous behaviour or character.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/bravery

Just as long as we all agree that cave diving is not about being that ridiculous Hollywood stereotype dude who deliberately breaks all the rules for no damn reason and it works out because he broke all the rules for no damn reason.

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Re:British divers make contact with missing Thai football team by ljcn on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @10:17AM (#17450343)
I was agreeing with you. You wrote yourself that modern usage is synonymous, so I thought it would be interesting to look at the etymology too.

For the record the full OED favours the latter root for bravery (bravo < Old Italian braido, brado (wild, savage)). Strange they don't say the same thing.

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