δαίμων
Ancient Greek
noun
Definitions
- god, goddess
- departed soul
- (ecclesiastical) demon, evil spirit
Etymology
Affix from Ancient Greek δαίομαι (divide) derived from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂-i- (cut, divide).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*deh₂-i-
Gloss
cut, divide
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
分
Emoji
✂️ ✂️ 🎬️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Bhaga English
- addendum English
- cacodaemon English
- condone English
- daemon English
- daimon English
- daimonic English
- donate English
- edit English
- demoni Finnish
- absconsus Latin
- addere Latin
- additio Latin
- additiōnem Latin
- addō Latin
- commendare Latin
- commendo Latin
- commendō Latin
- daemon Latin
- daemōn Latin
- dare Latin
- data Latin
- datum Latin
- datīvus Latin
- demando Latin
- demon Latin
- donatio Latin
- dosis Latin
- dēmandō Latin
- dēmandō, dēmandāre, demando Latin
- dēmōn Latin
- dō Latin
- dōnātiō Latin
- dōtāre Latin
- editio Latin
- mandatorius Latin
- mando Latin
- mandātum Latin
- perditio Latin
- perdo Latin
- reddo Latin
- reddō Latin
- redono Latin
- trāditiō Latin
- trāditiōnem Latin
- vendere, vendo Latin
- venditor Latin
- vendo Latin
- ēditiō Latin
- ēditus Latin
- Dämon German
- eudemonologia Italian
- datief Dutch, Flemish
- demon Dutch, Flemish
- donatie Dutch, Flemish
- démon French
- rendition French
- δαίομαι Ancient Greek
- δαιμόνιος Ancient Greek
- δόσις Ancient Greek
- εὐδαίμων Ancient Greek
- εὐδαιμονία Ancient Greek
- κακοδαίμων Ancient Greek
- κᾰκός Ancient Greek
- παράδοσις Ancient Greek
- ἀντίδοτον Ancient Greek
- ἀπόδοσις Ancient Greek
- *de-dh₃-tó-s Proto-Indo-European
- *deh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *deh₂-i- Proto-Indo-European
- *deh₃- Proto-Indo-European
- *deh₃-, *de-dóh₃-e Proto-Indo-European
- *deh₃-, *dé-deh₃-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *dédeh₃ti Proto-Indo-European
- *déh₃nom Proto-Indo-European
- *déh₃rom Proto-Indo-European
- *déh₃tis Proto-Indo-European
- *déh₃tōr Proto-Indo-European
- *h₁op-eio/e- Proto-Indo-European
- demon Norwegian Bokmål
- demonisere Norwegian Bokmål
- ダイモーン Japanese
- demon Polish
- demon Norwegian Nynorsk
- demonisere Norwegian Nynorsk
- दामन् Sanskrit
- भग Sanskrit
- भगदत्त Sanskrit
- भगवत् Sanskrit
- भजति Sanskrit
- demon Middle English
- dowarye Middle English
- dower Middle English
- dæmon Danish
- *da Proto-Slavic
- *danь Proto-Slavic
- démon Czech
- démonický Czech
- doneur Old French
- demono Esperanto
- demon Serbo-Croatian
- भग Hindi
- भगनासा Hindi
- demon Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- додан Persian
- دادن Persian
- δαίμονας Greek (modern)
- dēmons Latvian
- տամ Old Armenian
- demono Ido
- demon Old Irish
- donner Middle French
- 𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍉𐌽𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃 Gothic
- אבגתא Hebrew (modern)
- demo Old Portuguese
- demo, demõ Old Portuguese
- *ɸrodāti, *ɸro-dāti Proto-Celtic
- bhaga Pali
- demun Aromanian
- *didō Proto-Italic
- *dōnāō Proto-Italic
- भगनासा Marathi
- *bʰagás Proto-Indo-Aryan
- *bʰáȷ́ati Proto-Indo-Aryan
- ⲇⲁⲓⲙⲱⲛ Coptic
- ⲇⲉⲙⲱⲛ Coptic
- *toxe- Proto-Uralic
- *(e)δaś- Proto-Albanian
- *dhu̯onti Proto-Albanian
- demun Dalmatian
- བྷ་ག Tibetan
- *dāta- Proto-Iranian
- 𐎭𐎠𐎫 Old Persian
- 𐎭𐎭𐎠𐎬𐎢𐎺 Old Persian
- 𐎲𐎥 Old Persian
- rodif Middle Welsh
- دان Central Kurdish
- ēditor LL