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English
Etymology 1
A borrowing of Latin daemōn (“tutelary deity”), from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, tutelary deity”).
Pronunciation
Noun
daemon (plural daemons or daemones)
- An idea depicted as an entity.
- (uncommon) Alternative form of demon.
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Etymology 2
From Maxwell's demon; a derivation from “disk and execution monitor” is generally considered a backronym.
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Pronunciation
Noun
daemon (plural daemons)
- (computing, Unix) A process (a running program) that does not have a controlling terminal.
Usage notes
- (Unix): Often a daemon will be a server.
Translations
computing: a process that does not have a controlling terminal
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Japanese
Romanization
daemon
- Rōmaji transcription of ダエモン
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, god, protective spirit”).
Pronunciation
Noun
daemōn m (genitive daemonis); third declension
- a genius loci, a lar, the protective spirit or godling of a place or household
- (astrology) the 11th of the 12 signs of the zodiac
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) a demon
1633, Johannes de Laet, Novus orbis seu descriptionis Indiæ occidentalis, Libri XVIII, page 642:[…] perſuadent enim ſe crebro cum dæmone ſermones ſerere, quem Wattipam nominant, & res geſtas in longinquis regionibus ab ipſo edoceri, nec non futuras præmoneri: agnoſcunt autem hunc ſpiritum malum eſſe; neque injuria, nam haud raro miſerum in modum ab ipſo flagellantur.- For they persuade themselves that they often hold conversations with a demon whom they call Wattipa, and that they are informed by him of things done in distant regions, and indeed foreshown things to be: but they acknowledge that this spirit is evil; and not without reason, for not infrequently they are scourged by him in a miserable manner.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
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References
- “daemon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- daemon 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)
- daemon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “daemon”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
- “daemon”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers