demon

From Latin daemon (“lar, genius, guardian spirit”), from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, god, protective spirit”).


demon

So what does the Gospel of Judas really say? It says that Judas is a specific demon called the "Thirteenth." In certain Gnostic traditions, this is the given name of the king of demons - an entity known as Ialdabaoth who lives in the 13th realm above the earth. Judas is his human alter ego, his undercover agent in the world. These Gnostics equated Ialdabaoth with the Hebrew Yahweh, whom they saw as a jealous and wrathful deity and an opponent of the supreme God whom Jesus came to earth to reveal.
Whoever wrote the Gospel of Judas was a harsh critic of mainstream Christianity and its rituals. Because Judas is a demon working for Ialdabaoth, the author believed, when Judas sacrifices Jesus he does so to the demons, not to the supreme God. This mocks mainstream Christians' belief in the atoning value of Jesus' death and in the effectiveness of the Eucharist.

2007 December 2, April D. DeConick, “What the Gospel of Judas really says”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-11-23, Essay:

An evil spirit resident in or working for Hell; a devil.

(now chiefly historical) A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity.

A very wicked or malevolent person; also (in weakened sense) a mischievous person, especially a child.

The demon of stupidity haunts me whenever I open my mouth.

A source (especially personified) of great evil or wickedness; a destructive feeling or character flaw.

After a short spell on an adult psychiatric ward, she decided to find her own way to deal with her demons.

(in the plural) A person's fears or anxieties.

An evil supernatural spirit.
A person's fears or anxieties.

Oh Anthony […] Thy Dæmon that thy spirit which keepes thee, is Noble, Couragious, high vnmatchable.

c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:

“You saw her. And I picked her up,” Lyra said, blushing, because of course it was a gross violation of manners to touch something so private as someone else's dæmon.

2000, Phillip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass:

A person's inner spirit or genius; a guiding or creative impulse.

(Greek mythology) A tutelary deity or spirit intermediate between the major Olympian gods and mankind, especially a deified hero or the entity which supposedly guided Socrates, telling him what not to do.

A spirit not considered to be inherently evil; a (non-Christian) deity or supernatural being.

Let the orders now be that each demon is to stop all molecules from crossing his area in either direction except 100 coming from A, arbitrarily chosen to be let pass into B, and a greater number, having among them less energy but equal momentum, to cross from B to A.

1874, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, “Kinetic Theory of the Dissipation of Energy” in Nature 9, 441-444

A hypothetical entity with special abilities postulated for the sake of a thought experiment in philosophy or physics.

He’s a demon at the card tables.

Chelsea defended like demons to snuff out Manchester City but this was a perfectly calibrated triumph, built upon a structured attacking approach, choosing the right moments to transition, and illuminated by the smoothness of Havertz’s technique.

2021 May 29, David Hytner, “Chelsea win Champions League after Kai Havertz stuns Manchester City”, in The Guardian:

Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast.

Coordinate term: Canfield

‘That's much the best feeling to have.’ She dealt out the first row of ‘demon’.

1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 89:

(card games) A type of patience or solitaire (card game) played in the UK and/or US.

Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Notocrypta and Udaspes.

daimon

now chiefly in reference to the ancient Greek spirit

惡魔

person with great energy or skill, enthusiast

Anthony the Great
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From Middle English demon, a borrowing from Medieval Latin dēmōn, daemōn (“lar, familiar spirit, guardian spirit”), from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, god, protective spirit”). Doublet of daimon.


demon

(physics) Acronym of distinct electron motion particle: A quasiparticle, a type of massless neutral electron excitation associated with superconductivity.


demon

(computing) Alternative spelling of daemon

Daemon (computing)
Maxwell's demon
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From Maxwell's demon; a derivation from “disk and execution monitor” is generally considered a backronym.


demon

English: demon

From Medieval Latin dēmōn, daemōn, from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn). Doublet of tyme (“time”).


demon

demonen (definite singular)
demoner (indefinite plural)
demonene (definite plural)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn).


demon

demonen (definite singular)
demonar (indefinite plural)
demonane (definite plural)


demon

arna dich cách assa dligud i n-adaltras tri láthar demuin et tri bar nebcongabthetit-si

lest everyone go out of his duty into adultery through the Devil’s machination and through your incontinence

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demon m (genitive demuin, nominative plural demna)

demuin (genitive)
demna (nominative plural)
demon (masculine nominative singular stem)
demun (masculine nominative singular stem)
demon (dual masculine nominative stem)
demun (dual masculine nominative stem)
demna (masculine nominative plural stem)
demuin (masculine singular stem vocative)
demon (dual masculine stem vocative)
demun (dual masculine stem vocative)
demnu (masculine plural stem vocative)
demon (accusative masculine singular stem)
demun (accusative masculine singular stem)
demon (accusative dual masculine stem)
demun (accusative dual masculine stem)
demnai (accusative masculine plural stem)
demuin (genitive masculine singular stem)
demon (dual genitive masculine stem)
demun (dual genitive masculine stem)
demon (genitive masculine plural stem)
demun (genitive masculine plural stem)
demne (genitive masculine plural stem)
demon (dative masculine singular stem)
demun (dative masculine singular stem)
demnaib (dative dual masculine stem)
demnib (dative dual masculine stem)
demnaib (dative masculine plural stem)
demnib (dative masculine plural stem)
demon (mutation mutation-radical)
demon (mutation mutation-nasal)
ndemon (mutation)

Irish: deamhan

Scottish Gaelic: deamhan

From Latin daemōn, from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn), though the plural seems to be from daemonia, the plural of the diminutive daemonium.


demon

(mythology, religion) demon (evil supernatural spirit)

(computing) daemon (running program that does not have a controlling terminal)

demon (nominative singular)
demony (nominative plural)
demona (genitive singular)
demonów (genitive plural)
demonowi (dative singular)
demonom (dative plural)
demona (accusative singular)
demony (accusative plural)
demonem (instrumental singular)
demonami (instrumental plural)
demonie (locative singular)
demonach (locative plural)
demonie (singular vocative)
demony (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin daemon (“lar, genius, guardian spirit”), from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, god, protective spirit”). Sense 2 is a semantic loan from English daemon.


demon

demoni (plural)
demon (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
un demon (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
demonul (accusative definite nominative singular)
demoni (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
niște demoni (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
demonii (accusative definite nominative plural)
demon (dative genitive indefinite singular)
unui demon (dative genitive indefinite singular)
demonului (dative definite genitive singular)
demoni (dative genitive indefinite plural)
unor demoni (dative genitive indefinite plural)
demonilor (dative definite genitive plural)
demonule (singular vocative)
demonilor (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic демонъ (demonŭ), from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn). Compare also Aromanian demun.


demon

dèmōn (canonical masculine)
дѐмо̄н (Cyrillic)
dèmōn (nominative singular)
demoni (nominative plural)
demóna (genitive singular)
demona (genitive plural)
demonu (dative singular)
demonima (dative plural)
demona (accusative singular)
demone (accusative plural)
demone (singular vocative)
demoni (plural vocative)
demonu (locative singular)
demonima (locative plural)
demonom (instrumental singular)
demonima (instrumental plural)

Borrowed from Greek δαίμονας (daímonas).


demon

(Greek mythology) a demon (neutral spirit)

kämpa mot sina inre demoner

(in the plural) a demon (personification of anxiety and the like)

demon (indefinite nominative singular)
demonen (definite nominative singular)
demoner (indefinite nominative plural)
demonerna (definite nominative plural)
demons (genitive indefinite singular)
demonens (definite genitive singular)
demoners (genitive indefinite plural)
demonernas (definite genitive plural)

jävel

used in the sense of being a demon at something

Borrowed from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn)