daemoniacus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek δαιμονιακός (daimoniakós); compare daemonicus (from Ancient Greek δαιμονικός (daimonikós)).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /dae̯.moˈni.a.kus/, [d̪äe̯mɔˈniäkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /de.moˈni.a.kus/, [d̪emoˈniːäkus]
Adjective edit
daemoniacus (feminine daemoniaca, neuter daemoniacum); first/second-declension adjective
- demonic, devilish
- Synonym: daemonicus
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | daemoniacus | daemoniaca | daemoniacum | daemoniacī | daemoniacae | daemoniaca | |
| Genitive | daemoniacī | daemoniacae | daemoniacī | daemoniacōrum | daemoniacārum | daemoniacōrum | |
| Dative | daemoniacō | daemoniacō | daemoniacīs | ||||
| Accusative | daemoniacum | daemoniacam | daemoniacum | daemoniacōs | daemoniacās | daemoniaca | |
| Ablative | daemoniacō | daemoniacā | daemoniacō | daemoniacīs | |||
| Vocative | daemoniace | daemoniaca | daemoniacum | daemoniacī | daemoniacae | daemoniaca | |
Descendants edit
- → Catalan: demoníac
- → Italian: demoniaco
- → Occitan: demoniac
- → Old French: demoniaque
- English: demoniac
- French: démoniaque
- Romanian: demoniac
- → Portuguese: demoníaco
- → Spanish: demoníaco
References edit
- “daemoniacus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- daemoniacus 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)
- daemoniacus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.