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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
A borrowing of Latin daemōn (“tutelary deity”), from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, tutelary deity”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈdiː.mən/
- Rhymes: -iːmən
- Hyphenation: dae‧mon
Noun[edit]
daemon (plural daemons or daemones)
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
- agathodaemon
- cacodaemon/cacodemon; cacodaemonic/cacodemonic; cacodaemoniacal
- daemonic
- daimon
- eudaemon
Etymology 2[edit]
From Maxwell's demon; a derivation from “disk and execution monitor” is generally considered a backronym.
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
daemon (plural daemons)
Usage notes[edit]
- (Unix): Often a daemon will be a server.
Translations[edit]
computing: a process that does not have a controlling terminal
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See also[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Japanese[edit]
Romanization[edit]
daemon
Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, god, protective spirit”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdae̯.moːn/, [ˈd̪äe̯moːn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈde.mon/, [ˈd̪ɛːmon]
Noun[edit]
daemōn 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 Latin) a demon
- 1633, Johannes de Laet, Novus orbis seu descriptionis Indiæ occidentalis, Libri XVIII, page 642:
- […] perſuadent enim ſe crebro cum dæmone ſermones ſerere, quem Wattipam nominant, & res geſtas in longinquis regionibus ab ipſo edoceri, nec non futuras præmoneri: agnoſcunt autem hunc ſpiritum malum eſſe; neque injuria, nam haud raro miſerum in modum ab ipſo flagellantur.
- For they persuade themselves that they often hold conversations with a demon whom they call Wattipa, and that they are informed by him of things done in distant regions, and indeed foreshown things to be: but they acknowledge that this spirit is evil; and not without reason, for not infrequently they are scourged by him in a miserable manner.
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | daemōn | daemonēs |
Genitive | daemonis | daemonum |
Dative | daemonī | daemonibus |
Accusative | daemonem daemona |
daemonēs daemonas |
Ablative | daemone | daemonibus |
Vocative | daemōn | daemonēs |
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Albanian: djemën
- Aromanian: demun
- → Catalan: dèmon (learned)
- → English: daemon, demon
- Galician: demo
- → German: Dämon
- → Old Irish: demon, demun
- Italian: demone
- Portuguese: demo, demónio/demônio
- Translingual: Felis daemon
References[edit]
- “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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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