daemonium

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *deh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-y(eti)

Proto-Indo-European *-y(éti)

Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y-der.

Ancient Greek δαίομαι (daíomai)

Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ

Ancient Greek -μων (-mōn)

Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn)

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)

Ancient Greek δαιμόνῐος (daimónĭos)

Ancient Greek δαιμόνῐον (daimónĭon)bor.

Latin daemonium

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δαιμόνῐον (daimónĭon).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [dae̯ˈmɔ.ni.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [deˈmɔː.ni.um]

Noun

daemonium n (genitive daemoniī or daemonī); second declension

1. demon (lesser, especially evil, spirit)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	daemonium	daemonia
genitive	daemoniī daemonī1	daemoniōrum
dative	daemoniō	daemoniīs
accusative	daemonium	daemonia
ablative	daemoniō	daemoniīs
vocative	daemonium	daemonia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Noun

daemonium

1. genitive plural of daemon

Descendants

• → Asturian: demoniu
• → Catalan: dimoni
• → Istriot: damognio (semi-learned)
• → Italian: demonio
• → Occitan: demòni
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: demonio
  • Fala: demoniu
  • Galician: demoño
  • Portuguese: demónio
• → Spanish: demonio

References

• “daemonium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “daemonium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.