different between cacodaemon vs daemon

English

Alternative forms

• cacodemon
• cacodæmon

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (kakodaím?n), from ????? (kakós, “bad, evil”) and ?????? (daím?n, “divinity, genius”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæk??di?m?n/

Noun

cacodaemon (plural cacodaemons)

1. A wicked or malevolent spirit as opposed to agathodemon (a good spirit).
2. Twelfth astrological House, from which only evil prognostics are alleged to proceed. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (obsolete) A nightmare.

Related terms

• cacodaemoniacal
• cacodaemonic
• cacodemonic
• daemonic
• demonic
• daemon
• demon

See also

• agathodemon
• eudaemon

English

Etymology 1

A borrowing of Latin daemon (“tutelary deity”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (daím?n, “dispenser, tutelary deity”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?di?.m?n/
• Rhymes: -i?m?n
• Hyphenation: dae?mon

Noun

daemon (plural daemons)

1. (uncommon) Alternative form of demon.

Derived terms

• daemonic

Related terms

• cacodaemon
• cacodaemonic
• cacodaemoniacal
• cacodemon
• cacodemonic
• daimon

Etymology 2

From Maxwell's demon; a derivation from “disk and execution monitor” is generally considered a backronym.

Alternative forms

• dæmon, daimon, demon

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?di?m?n/, /?de?m?n/
• Rhymes: -i?m?n, -e?m?n
• Hyphenation: dae?mon

Noun

daemon (plural daemons)

1. (computing, Unix) A process (a running program) that does not have a controlling terminal.

Usage notes

• (Unix): Often a daemon will be a server.

Translations

See also

• background process

Anagrams

• Modane, Modena, moaned, modena, nomade

Japanese

Romanization

daemon

1. R?maji transcription of ????

Latin

Alternative forms

• demon (Medieval)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (daím?n, “dispenser, god, protective spirit”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?dae?.mo?n/, [?d?äe?mo?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?de.mon/, [?d???m?n]

Noun

daem?n m (genitive daemonis); third declension

1. a genius loci, a lar, the protective spirit or godling of a place or household
2. (astrology) the 11th of the 12 signs of the zodiac
3. (ecclesiastical) a demon

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• daemonicus

Related terms

• daemonium
• cacodemon
• calodemon

Descendants

• Italian: demone
• Albanian: djemën
• Aromanian: demun
• English: daemon, demon
• Galician: demo
• German: Dämon
• Irish: deamhan
• Portuguese: demo
• Translingual: Felis daemon

References

• daemon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• daemon in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• daemon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• daemon in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• daemon in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers