dæmon
English
editNoun
editdæmon (plural dæmons)
- Alternative spelling of daemon
- 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 299:
- Edmund was almost as welcome to his brother, as Fanny to her aunt; but Mrs. Norris, instead of having comfort from either, was but the more irritated by the sight of the person whom, in the blindness of her anger, she could have charged as the dæmon of the piece.
- 1829, Algernon Herbert, Nimrod, page 67:
- It was their opinion, and that of all similar sects, that cœlestial powers were often incarnate and came from time to time to rule the earth, dæmon kings whose conception and aphanism were alike miraculous.
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editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “a god, goddess, divine power, genius, guardian spirit”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editdæmon c (singular definite dæmonen, plural indefinite dæmoner)
Inflection
editDeclension of dæmon
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | dæmon | dæmonen | dæmoner | dæmonerne |
genitive | dæmons | dæmonens | dæmoners | dæmonernes |
Derived terms
edit- dæmonisere ("demonize")
- dæmonisk ("demonic")
See also
edit- dæmon on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
French
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Noun
editdæmon m (plural dæmons)
Swedish
editNoun
editdæmon c
- Archaic form of demon.
- 2 October 1834, Reverend Hallström, “Konstitutions-Utskottets Memorial, med betänkande och förslag, angående Landtdagar [Memorial of the Constitutional Committee, with considerations and proposals regarding State Diet]”, in Aftonbladet, number 228, page 2:
- Måhända ock en annan Dæmon, hvilken, hyllande den falska åsigt, att Konungarnes och Nationernas sak icke är i grunden densamma, […]
- Perhaps also another demon, who, embracing the false belief that the cause of kings and nations is not fundamentally the same, […]
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