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daemon
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)
- (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)
- (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
- 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
- a genius loci, a lar, the protective spirit or godling of a place or household
- (astrology) the 11th of the 12 signs of the zodiac
- (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
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service
English
Alternative forms
- seruice (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s??v?s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s?v?s/
Etymology 1
From Middle English servise, from Old French servise (French service), from the verb servir, from Latin servitium (compare Portuguese serviço, Italian servizio, Norman sèrvice, Spanish servicio), from servus (“servant; serf; slave”). Displaced native Old English þe?nung.
Noun
service (countable and uncountable, plural services)
- An act of being of assistance to someone.
- (economics) The practice of providing such a service as economic activity.
- A department in a company, an organization, a government department, etc.
- (computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
- The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group
- The military.
- A set of dishes or utensils.
- 1997, Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Monthly Review Press, page 36:
- When their lavish fiestas ended they threw the silver service and even golden vessels from their balconies to be picked up by lucky passersby.
- 1997, Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Monthly Review Press, page 36:
- (sports) The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.
- A religious rite or ritual.
- (law) The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
- 1668 July 3, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Hou?toun” in The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548:
- He Su?pends on the?e Rea?ons, that Thomas Rue had granted a general Di?charge to Adam Mu?het, who was his Conjunct, and correus debendi, after the alleadged Service, which Di?charged Mu?het, and con?equently Houstoun his Partner.
- 1668 July 3, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Hou?toun” in The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548:
- (Israel, West Bank, also in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities.
- A musical composition for use in churches.
- (obsolete) Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.
- (nautical) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.
- Access to resources such as hotel rooms and web-based videos without transfer of the resources' ownership.
Usage notes
In British English, the indefinite article "a" is often used with “good service”, as in "A good service is operating on all London Underground lines", whereas this is not used in American English.
Antonyms
- (action or work that is produced and consumed): good
- capital
Derived terms
Related terms
- service à la française
- service à la russe
Translations
Verb
service (third-person singular simple present services, present participle servicing, simple past and past participle serviced)
- (transitive) To serve.
- (transitive) To perform maintenance.
- (public relations, transitive) To supply (media outlets) with press releases etc.
- 1977, Patricia Marshall, Citizen Participation Certification for Community Development (page 107)
- One obvious way is press releases, which should be sent to your region's reporters, editors and columnists, the wire services, professional publications. […] Servicing the media should be an everyday thing.
- 1971, College and University Journal (volumes 10-11, page 9)
- […] instead of expending so much of their PR effort on servicing the media.
- 1977, Patricia Marshall, Citizen Participation Certification for Community Development (page 107)
- (transitive, agriculture, euphemistic) To inseminate through sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, vulgar) To perform a sexual act upon.
- (transitive, military, euphemistic) To attack.
- to service a target; target servicing
Synonyms
- (to serve): attend, wait on; See also Thesaurus:serve
- (to perform a sexual act): be with, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
Descendants
- ? Dutch: service
- ? Indonesian: servis
- ? German: Service
- ? Hindi: ?????? (sarvis)
- ? Hungarian: szerviz
- ? Japanese: ???? (s?bisu)
- ? Korean: ??? (seobiseu)
- ? Russian: ?????? (servis)
- ? Ukrainian: ?????? (servis)
Translations
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
service (plural services)
- Service tree.
Translations
Anagrams
- cerevis, scrieve
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English service.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ser?vice
Noun
service f or m (plural services)
- service
French
Etymology
From Old French servise, borrowed from Latin servitium (compare Portuguese serviço, Italian servizio, Norman sèrvice, Spanish servicio), from servus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??.vis/
Noun
service m (plural services)
- service
- (tennis) service
- (Switzerland, in the plural) cutlery
Derived terms
Related terms
- servir
- servant
- serf
Interjection
service
- (Switzerland) you're welcome
Further reading
- “service” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- écrives
Norman
Alternative forms
- sèrvice (Jersey)
Etymology
From Old French servise, (compare French service), borrowed from Latin servitium, from servus.
Noun
service m (plural services)
- (Guernsey) service
Old French
Noun
service m (oblique plural services, nominative singular services, nominative plural service)
- Alternative form of servise
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
service c
- service, the level of comfort offered by assistants and servants (the opposite of self-service)
- maintenance and repair
Declension
Related terms
See also
- servis
- tjänst
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