δαιμόνιον

Neuter gender of δαιμόνῐος (daimónĭos, “extraordinary, divine; pertaining to daimones”).

δαιμόνῐον • (daimónĭon) n (genitive δαιμονῐ́ου); second declension

1. the divine Power, the Deity, the Divinity
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.87
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 2.23.8, (compare 3.18.2)
   • 343 BCE, Demosthenes, On the False Embassy 239
   • 341 BCE, Demosthenes, Third Philippic 54
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Epinomis 992D
2. an inferior divine being, demon
   • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 202E
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.1.2
   • 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 24B
   1. the name by which Socrates calls his genius, or the spirit that dwelt within him
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.1.2
      • 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 40A
      • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 151A
      • 380 BCE, Plato, Euthydemus 272E
   2. a demon, evil spirit

• → Coptic: ⲇⲁⲓⲙⲟⲛⲓⲟⲛ (daimonion), ⲇⲉⲙⲟⲛⲓⲟⲛ (demonion), ⲇⲁⲓⲙⲱⲛⲓⲟⲛ (daimōnion)
• → Latin: daemonium

• “δαιμόνιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “δαιμόνιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• δαιμόνιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• δαιμόνιον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• G1140 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • deity idem, page 206.
  • demon idem, page 209.
  • familiar idem, page 305.
  • genius idem, page 357.