different between daemon vs deity

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

English

Etymology

From Middle French deité, from Latin deit?s.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?di?.?.t?/, /?de?.?.t?/, /?de???.t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?di.?.ti/, [?di.?.?i], /?de?.?.ti/, [?de?.?.?i]
• Hyphenation: de?i?ty

Noun

deity (countable and uncountable, plural deities)

1. Synonym of divinity: the state, position, or fact of being a god. [from 14th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.X.4:

     Thou seest all, yet none at all sees thee: / All that is by the working of thy Deitee.

2. A supernatural divine being; a god or goddess. [from 14th c.]
   • 2000, Kenneth Seeskin, Searching for a Distant God: The Legacy of Maimonides, Oxford University Press (?ISBN), page 23:

     The crux of monotheism is not only belief in a single deity but belief in a deity who is different from everything else.

Synonyms

• (a god): See Thesaurus:god

Hyponyms

• household deity

Related terms

Translations

See also

• cosmocrat
• deism
• god
• godliness
• theism

References

Anagrams

• Tidey, etyid