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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From δειμός (deimós, “terror”), with stress shift.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dêː.mos/ → /ˈði.mos/ → /ˈði.mos/
Proper noun
Δεῖμος • (Deîmos) m (genitive Δείμου); second declension
- (Greek mythology) Deimos, Terror (son of Ares)
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Further reading
- “Δεῖμος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Δεῖμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Δεῖμος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- δειμός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- “Δεῖμος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “Δεῖμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press