demon
/ˈdimən/DEE-muhn
/ˈdimən/DEE-muhn
Meaninga spirit
Common meaning: an evil spirit
- demona divine power; a spiritLiddell & Scott, Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (1889), p. 172 · scan
Journey through time
- Aryan root · reconstructed√DA‘distribute, appoint’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 144, p. 735 · scan
- Greekδαίμων‘a divine power’
- Latindemon
- Old Frenchdemonsource
- Englishmeaning shiftsa divine power → an evil spiritdemon‘an evil spirit’ · today
demon also in: pandemonium
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
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Origin: Built on Greek δαίμων ‘a divine power; a spirit’.
Roots
- δαίμων Greek “a divine power; a spirit”
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