dæmon

See also: daemon and Dämon

English

Noun

dæmon (plural dæmons)

  1. Alternative spelling of daemon
    • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] T[homas] 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.

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “a god, goddess, divine power, genius, guardian spirit”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dɛmoːn/, [d̥ɛˈmoːˀn]
  • Rhymes: -oːˀn

Noun

dæmon c (singular definite dæmonen, plural indefinite dæmoner)

  1. demon (evil spirit)
  2. instinct, urge
  3. daemon, demon (a spirit or lesser divinity)

Inflection
Declension of dæmon
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative dæmon dæmonen dæmoner dæmonerne
genitive dæmons dæmonens dæmoners dæmonernes

Derived terms

See also

French

Pronunciation
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Noun

dæmon m (plural dæmons)

  1. Obsolete form of démon.
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