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demon
English
Alternative forms
- (now chiefly in reference to the ancient Greek spirit): daimon, daemon, dæmon
Etymology
From Middle English demon, a borrowing from Medieval Latin d?m?n, daem?n (“lar, familiar spirit, guardian spirit”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (daím?n, “dispenser, god, protective spirit”). Doublet of daimon.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?di?.m?n/
- Rhymes: -i?m?n
- Homophone: daemon
Noun
demon (plural demons)
- An evil supernatural spirit.
- An evil spirit resident in or working for Hell; a devil. [from 10th c.]
- (now chiefly historical) A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity. [from 10th c.]
- A very wicked or malevolent person; also (in weakened sense) a mischievous person, especially a child. [from 16th c.]
- A source (especially personified) of great evil or wickedness; a destructive feeling or character flaw. [from 17th c.]
- The demon of stupidity haunts me whenever I open my mouth.
- (in the plural) A person's fears or anxieties. [from 19th c.]
- 2013, The Guardian, 21 January:
- After a short spell on an adult psychiatric ward, she decided to find her own way to deal with her demons.
- 2013, The Guardian, 21 January:
- A neutral supernatural spirit.
- A person's inner spirit or genius; a guiding or creative impulse. [from 14th c.]
- 1616, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, II.3:
- Oh Anthony […] Thy Dæmon that thy spirit which keepes thee, is Noble, Couragious, high vnmatchable.
- 2000, Phillip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass:
- “You saw her. And I picked her up,” Lyra said, blushing, because of course it was a gross violation of manners to touch something so private as someone else's dæmon.
- 1616, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, II.3:
- (Greek mythology) A tutelary deity or spirit intermediate between the major Olympian gods and mankind, especially a deified hero or the entity which supposedly guided Socrates, telling him what not to do. [from 16th c.]
- A spirit not considered to be inherently evil; a (non-Christian) deity or supernatural being. [from 19th c.]
- An hypothetical entity with special abilities postulated for the sake of a thought experiment in philosophy or physics.
- 1874, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, “Kinetic Theory of the Dissipation of Energy” in Nature 9, 441-444:
- 1874, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, “Kinetic Theory of the Dissipation of Energy” in Nature 9, 441-444:
- A person's inner spirit or genius; a guiding or creative impulse. [from 14th c.]
- Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast. [from 19th c.]
- (Britain, card games) A form of patience (known as Canfield in the US). [from 19th c.]
- 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 89:
- ‘That's much the best feeling to have.’ She dealt out the first row of ‘demon’.
- 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 89:
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Notocrypta and Udaspes.
Usage notes
Meanings drawing on the neutral, ancient Greek conception now often distinguish themselves by the variant spellings daimon or daemon.
Synonyms
- (evil spirit): See Thesaurus:demon
- (neutral spirit): genius, tutelary deity, see also Thesaurus:god and Thesaurus:spirit
Hyponyms
- (evil spirit): See Thesaurus:demon
- (theoretical entity): Maxwell's demon
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- Emond, monde, moned
Dutch
Etymology
From Latin daemon (“lar, genius, guardian spirit”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (daím?n, “dispenser, god, protective spirit”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?de?.m?n/
- Hyphenation: de?mon
Noun
demon m (plural demonen or demons)
- genius, lar
- (uncommon) demon
- Synonyms: demoon, duivel
Finnish
Noun
demon
- Genitive singular form of demo.
Anagrams
- moden
Latin
Alternative forms
- d?mum
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?de?.mon/, [?d?e?m?n]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?de.mon/, [?d???m?n]
Noun
d?mon m
- accusative singular of d?mos
Middle English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin d?m?n, daem?n, from Ancient Greek ?????? (daím?n). Doublet of tyme (“time”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d???m??n/
Noun
demon (plural demones)
- demon, devil, malicious spirit
- (rare) daimon, helpful spirit
Descendants
- English: demon
References
- “d?m?n, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-25.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (daím?n).
Noun
demon m (definite singular demonen, indefinite plural demoner, definite plural demonene)
- a demon
Derived terms
- demonisere
Related terms
- demonisk
References
- “demon” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (daím?n).
Noun
demon m (definite singular demonen, indefinite plural demonar, definite plural demonane)
- a demon
Derived terms
- demonisere
Related terms
- demonisk
References
- “demon” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin daemon (“lar, genius, guardian spirit”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (daím?n, “dispenser, god, protective spirit”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?.m?n/
Noun
demon m anim
- demon
Declension
Derived terms
- demoniczny, demonicznie
- demonizowa?
- demonologia
Romanian
Alternative forms
- dimon (regional, Moldova)
Etymology
Borrowed from Greek ???????? (daímonas), partly through the intermediate of (South) Slavic *demon?. Compare also Aromanian demun.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?demon]
Noun
demon m (plural demoni)
- demon
- (figuratively) a despicable person
Declension
Synonyms
- diavol
- drac
Antonyms
- înger
- sfânt
Related terms
- demonic
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Greek ???????? (daímonas).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?mo?n/
- Hyphenation: de?mon
Noun
dèm?n m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)
- demon
Declension
Derived terms
- dèm?nsk?
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cacodaemon
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)
- A wicked or malevolent spirit as opposed to agathodemon (a good spirit).
- Twelfth astrological House, from which only evil prognostics are alleged to proceed. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (obsolete) A nightmare.
Related terms
- cacodaemoniacal
- cacodaemonic
- cacodemonic
- daemonic
- demonic
- daemon
- demon
See also
- agathodemon
- eudaemon
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