different between barbarous vs demoniac

English

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) barbarouse

Etymology

Late Middle English, from Latin barbarus (“foreigner, savage”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (bárbaros, “foreign, strange”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??(?)b???s/

Adjective

barbarous (comparative more barbarous, superlative most barbarous)

1. (said of language) Not classical or pure.
2. uncivilized, uncultured
   • 1923, Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt

     I felt vaguely he was a sneak, and remained quite unmollified by advances on his side, which, in a boy's barbarous fashion, unless it suited me to be magnanimous, I haughtily ignored.

3. Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant.

   I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs

   By the known rules of antient libertie,

   When strait a barbarous noise environs me

   Of Owles and Cuckoes, Asses, Apes and Doggs - I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs, John Milton (1673)

Derived terms

• barbarously
• barbarousness

Related terms

• barbarian
• barbaric

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• daemoniac
• dæmoniac

Etymology

From Old French demoniaque, from Late Latin daemoniacus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??m??n?ak/, /dim??na?æk/

Adjective

demoniac (comparative more demoniac, superlative most demoniac)

1. Possessed or controlled by a demon.
2. Of or pertaining to demons; demonic.
   • 1928, H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu", Weird Tales, Vol. 11, No. 2, pages 159–178, 287:

     Animal fury and orgiastic licence here whipped themselves to demoniac heights by howls and squawking ecstasies that tore and reverberated through those nighted woods like pestilential tempests from the gulfs of hell.

   • 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber & Faber 2005, p. 216:

     There was movement everywhere, screaming, demoniac activity; the old man was coming across the tumbling logs.

Translations

Noun

demoniac (plural demoniacs)

1. Someone who is possessed by a demon.
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 53:

     The exorcism was dropped from the second Edwardian Prayer Book, because of its implication that unbaptised infants were demoniacs […].

References

• demoniac in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• comedian, daemonic, dæmonic, midocean

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin daemoniacus. Attested from the 13th century.

Adjective

demoniac m (feminine singular demoniaca, masculine plural demoniacs, feminine plural demoniacas) (Gascony, Languedoc)

1. demoniac, demonic

Related terms

• demòni

Further reading

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 184.
• Pèir Morà, "Diccionari tot en gascon", 2020, Éditions des Régionalismes, Cressé, ?ISBN, p. 93

References

Romanian

Etymology

From French démoniaque.

Adjective

demoniac m or n (feminine singular demoniac?, masculine plural demoniaci, feminine and neuter plural demoniace)

1. demonic

Declension