god
English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old English god (“deity”) (akin to Old High German got (a rank of deity)), originally neuter, then changed to masculine to reflect the change in religion to Christianity, both from the Proto-Germanic *gudą (compare Dutch god, German Gott, Danish gud), from the Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰuto- (“invoked [one]”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewH- (“to call, to invoke”) or *ǵʰew- (“to pour”). Not related to the word good.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /ɡɒd/, X-SAMPA: /gQd/
- (US) IPA: /ɡɑd/, X-SAMPA: /gAd/
- enPR: gŏd
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒd
Noun
- A deity:
- A supernatural, typically immortal being with superior powers.
- A male deity.
- 2002. Chuck Palahniuk. Lullaby:
- When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love.
- 2002. Chuck Palahniuk. Lullaby:
- A supreme being; God, typically in some particular view or aspect.
- An idol
- A representation of a deity, notably a statue(tte).
- Something or someone particularly revered, worshipped, idealized, admired and/or followed.
- (metaphor) A person in a high position of authority; a powerful ruler or tyrant.
- An exceedingly handsome man.
- Lounging on the beach were several Greek gods.
- (Internet) The person who owns and runs a multi-user dungeon.
- 1996, Andy Eddy, Internet after hours
- The gods usually have several wizards, or "immortals," to assist them in building the MUD.
- 2003, David Lojek, Emote to the Max (page 11)
- The wizzes are only the junior grade of the MUD illuminati. The people who attain the senior grade of MUD freemasonry by starting their own MUD, with all due hubris, are known as gods.
- 1996, Andy Eddy, Internet after hours
Usage notes
The word god is often applied both to males and to females. The word was originally neuter in Proto-Germanic; monotheistic – notably Judeo-Christian – usage completely shifted the gender to masculine, necessitating the development of a feminine form, goddess.
Synonyms
- (supernatural being with superior powers): deity, See also Wikisaurus:god
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
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Verb
god (third-person singular simple present gods, present participle godding, simple past and past participle godded)
- To idolize.
- 1608, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Coriolanus, Act V Scene III:
- CORIOLANUS: This last old man, / Whom with a crack'd heart I have sent to Rome, / Loved me above the measure of a father; / Nay, godded me, indeed.
- a. 1866, Edward Bulwer Lytton, "Death and Sisyphus".
- To men the first necessity is gods; / And if the gods were not, / " Man would invent them, tho' they godded stones.
- 2001, Conrad C. Fink, Sportswriting: The Lively Game, page 78
- "Godded him up" ... It's the fear of discerning journalists: Does coverage of athletic stars, on field and off, approach beatification of the living?
- 1608, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Coriolanus, Act V Scene III:
- to deify
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, Colin Clouts Come Home Againe.
- Then got he bow and fhafts of gold and lead, / In which fo fell and puiflant he grew, / That Jove himfelfe his powre began to dread, / And, taking up to heaven, him godded new.
- 1951, Eric Voegelin, Dante Germino ed., The New Science of Politics: An Introduction (1987), page 125
- The superman marks the end of a road on which we find such figures as the "godded man" of English Reformation mystics
- 1956, C. S. Lewis, Fritz Eichenberg, Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold, page 241
- "She is so lately godded that she is still a rather poor goddess, Stranger.
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, Colin Clouts Come Home Againe.
Translations
See also
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse góðr (“good”), from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to join, to unite”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
god (neuter godt, definite and plural gode, comparative bedre, superlative bedst)
Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch got, from Proto-Germanic *gudą, from the Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰuto- (“invoked [one]”). Compare English and West Frisian god, German Gott, Danish gud.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔt
- (Belgium)
/ʝɔt/ (file) - (Netherlands)
/ɣɔt/ (file)
Noun
god m (plural goden, diminutive godje)
Related terms
Low German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Low German, from Old Saxon, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz.
Pronunciation
Adjective
god
Middle English
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Etymology 1
From Old Saxon gōd, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɣoʊt/
Adjective
gôd
Descendants
- Low German god
Etymology 2
From Old Saxon gōd, from Proto-Germanic *gudą.
Alternative forms
- gad (later Middle Low German)
Pronunciation
- (earlier) IPA: /ɣɔːt/, IPA: /ɣɒːt/ (more on the merger of monophthongal A and O)
- (later) IPA: /ɣɔt/
Noun
gōd m (genitive godes)
Etymology
From Proto-Athabaskan *-ɢᴜ̓t’.
Cognates:
- Apachean: Western Apache -god, Chiricahua -go’
- Others: Hupa -ɢot’, Mattole -goʔł, Galice -gʷay’, Chilcotin -gʷə́d, Slavey -gó’, Hare -gó’, Dogrib -gò, Dene Sųłiné -gór, Sekani -gʷə̀de’, Dunneza -gʷəd, Central Tanana -gᴜd, Hän -gòd, Ahtna -ɢo’d, Dena’ina -ɢət’, Eyak -ɢuʰd
Pronunciation
- IPA: [kòt]~[kɣʷòt]
Noun
-god (inalienable)
Derived terms
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse góðr, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to join, to unite”).
Adjective
god (masculine god; feminine god; neuter godt; plural gode; comparative bedre; superlative best)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse góðr, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to join, to unite”).
Adjective
god (masculine god; feminine god; neuter godt; singular definite gode; plural gode; comparative betre; superlative best)
Old English
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *gudą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰuto- (“invoked; poured, libated”), from an original root *ǵʰaw-, *ǵʰawH- (“call, invoke”) or *ǵʰew- (“pour”). Germanic cognates include Old Frisian god, Old Saxon god (Low German gad), Dutch god, Old High German got (German Gott), Old Norse goð, guð (Danish and Swedish gud), Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌸 (guþ). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek καυχάομαι (kaukhaomai, “I extol, boast”), Old Irish guth (“voice”), Old Church Slavonic зъвати (Russian звать (zvat’, “call”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɡod/
Noun
god n
Declension
Noun
god m
- God, the Christian god
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: god
- English: god
Etymology 2
From Proto-Germanic *gōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ-, *gʰadʰ- (“to gather, align, match”). Cognate with Old Frisian gōd, Old Saxon gōd, Dutch goed, Old High German guot (German gut), Old Norse góðr (Swedish god), Gothic 𐌲𐍉𐌸𐍃 (goths).
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɡoːd/
Adjective
gōd (comparative betera, superlative betst)
Declension
| Weak | Strong | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | singular | plural | ||||||||||
| m | n | f | m | n | f | m | n | f | |||||
| nominative | gōda | gōde | gōde | gōdan | nom. | gōd | gōde | gōd | gōda, -e | ||||
| accusative | gōdan | gōde | gōdan | acc. | gōdne | gōd | gōde | gōde | gōd | gōda, -e | |||
| genitive | gōdan | gōdra, gōdena | gen. | gōdes | gōdes | gōdre | gōdra | ||||||
| dative | gōdan | gōdum | dat. | gōdum | gōdum | gōdre | gōdum | ||||||
| instrumental | gōde | ||||||||||||
Descendants
Noun
gōd n
Declension
Old Saxon
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *gōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to join, to unite”). Compare Old English and Old Frisian gōd, Old High German and Old Dutch guot, Old Norse góðr.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɡoːt/
Adjective
gōd (comparative betiro, superlative betst)
Declension
| Strong declension | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | ||||
| singular | plural | singular | plural | singular | plural | |
| nominative | gōd | gōde | gōd | gōde | gōd | gōdu |
| accusative | gōdan | gōde | gōd | gōde | gōda | gōdu |
| genitive | gōdes | gōdarō | gōdes | gōdarō | gōdaro | gōdarō |
| dative | gōdumu | gōdum | gōdumu | gōdum | gōdaro | gōdum |
| Weak declension | ||||||
| masculine | neuter | feminine | ||||
| singular | plural | singular | plural | singular | plural | |
| nominative | gōdo | gōdu | gōda | gōdu | gōda | gōdu |
| accusative | gōdun | gōdun | gōda | gōdun | gōdun | gōdun |
| genitive | gōdun | gōdonō | gōdun | gōdonō | gōdun | gōdonō |
| dative | gōdun | gōdum | gōdun | gōdum | gōdun | gōdum |
Descendants
- Middle Low German: gôd
Etymology 2
From Proto-Germanic *gōdaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɡoːt/
Noun
gōd n
Declension
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | gōd | gōd |
| accusative | gōd | gōd |
| genitive | gōdes | gōdō |
| dative | gōde | gōdum |
Descendants
- Middle Low German: gôd
Etymology 3
From Proto-Germanic *gudą.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɡot/
Noun
god n
Declension
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | god | godu |
| accusative | god | godu |
| genitive | godes | godō |
| dative | gode | godum |
Descendants
Etymology 4
From Proto-Germanic *gudą, from the Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰuto- (“invoked [one]”). Compare Old English god, Old Frisian god, Old High German got, Old Norse guð.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɡot/
Noun
god m
- God, the Christian god
Declension
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | God | Godos |
| accusative | God | Godos |
| genitive | Godes | Godō |
| dative | Gode | Godum |
Descendants
- Middle Low German: God
Romansch
Alternative forms
Etymology
Of probable Germanic origins (compare German Wald, Dutch woud).
Noun
god m (plural gods)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *godъ. Cognate with Slovene god, Old Church Slavonic годъ (godŭ), Russian год (god).
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɡôːd/
Noun
gȏd m (Cyrillic spelling го̑д)
- name day
- anniversary, holiday
- ring (on a tree)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | gȏd | gȍdovi |
| genitive | goda | godova |
| dative | godu | godovima |
| accusative | god | godove |
| vocative | gode | godovi |
| locative | godu | godovima |
| instrumental | godom | godovima |
Particle
god (Cyrillic spelling год)
- generalization particle
- (t)ko god — whoever
- što god — whatever
- štа god — whatever
- koji god — whichever
- Uzmi koji god hočeš.
- Take whichever you want.
- Uzmi koji god hočeš.
- kad god — whenever
- čiji god — whoever's
- kako god — in whichever way
- kakav god — of whatever kind
- koliki god — of whichever size
- koliko god — no matter how much/many
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *godъ. Cognate with Serbo-Croatian god, Old Church Slavonic годъ.
Noun
god m inan.
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish goþer, from Old Norse góðr, from Proto-Germanic *gōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- (“to join, to unite”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
god (comparative godare, superlative godast)
Declension
Derived terms
Antonyms
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian god, from Proto-Germanic *gudą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰuto-. Compare English and Dutch god, German Gott, Danish gud.
Noun
god c (pl goaden)
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