dæmon
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English
Noun
dæmon (plural dæmons)
- Alternative spelling of daemon
- 1814 May 9, , chapter XVI, in Mansfield Park: , volume III, London: ">…] for T 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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Danish
Etymology
From Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “a god, goddess, divine power, genius, guardian spirit”).
Pronunciation
Noun
dæmon c (singular definite dæmonen, plural indefinite dæmoner)
Inflection
| common gender |
singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | dæmon | dæmonen | dæmoner | dæmonerne |
| genitive | dæmons | dæmonens | dæmoners | dæmonernes |
Derived terms
- dæmonisere ("demonize")
- dæmonisk ("demonic")
See also
dæmon on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
French
Pronunciation
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Noun
dæmon m (plural dæmons)
Swedish
Noun
dæmon c
- archaic form of demon
- 2 October 1834, Reverend Hallström, “Konstitutions-Utskottets Memorial, med betänkande och förslag, angående Landtdagar ”, 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,