deum

See also: Deum and deûm

Latin

Alternative forms

• deûm (genitive plural)

Noun

deum

1. accusative singular of deus
2. (poetic) genitive plural of deus
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 63.68:

     ego nunc deum ministra et Cybeles famula ferar?

     Shall I now be called a ministress of the gods and a handmaid of Cybele?

   • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5:

     ...pandere palmas ante deum delubra

     ...to extend one's palms before the shrines of the gods.

References

• deum 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)