different between fiend vs daemon

English

Alternative forms

• fend

Etymology

From Middle English feend, f?nd, fiend, feond, viend, veond (“enemy; demon”), from Old English f?ond (“enemy”), from Proto-Germanic *fijandz.

Compare Old Norse fjándi (Icelandic fjandi, Danish fjende, Norwegian fiende, Swedish fiende, West Frisian fijân, Low German Feend, Fiend, Dutch vijand, German Feind, Gothic ???????????????????????????? (fijands)), with all of them meaning foe. The Old Norse and Gothic terms are present participles of the corresponding verbs fjá/???????????????????? (fijan, “to hate”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh?- (“to hate”) (compare Sanskrit ????? (p??yati, “(he) reviles”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi?nd/
• Rhymes: -i?nd

Noun

fiend (plural fiends)

1. A devil or demon; a malignant or diabolical being; an evil spirit.

   Synonym: monster
2. A very evil person.

   Synonym: monster

3. (obsolete) An enemy; a foe.

4. (religious, archaic) The enemy of mankind, specifically, the Devil; Satan.
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 35:

     At the confirmation ceremony the bishop would lay his hands on the child and tie around its forehead a linen band […] . This was believed to strengthen him against the assaults of the fiend […]

5. (informal) An addict or fanatic.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

fiend (third-person singular simple present fiends, present participle fiending, simple past and past participle fiended)

1. (slang, intransitive) To yearn; to be desperate (for something).
   • 1999, Macy Gray, Jeremy Ruzumna, Jinsoo Lim, David Wilder, I Try (song)

     I play it off, but I'm dreaming of you / And I'll try to keep my cool, but I'm fiendin'

   • 2011, Emma J. Stephens, For a Dancer: The Memoir

     I am back in San Francisco at the Clift Hotel, fiending for my fix.

Translations

Anagrams

• endif, finde, fined, indef, indef.

Middle English

Noun

fiend (plural fiendes)

1. Alternative form of feend

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