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

• Modane, Modena, moaned, modena, nomade

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

• dæmonisere ("demonize")
• dæmonisk ("demonic")

See also

• dæmon on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

dæmon m (plural dæmons)

1. Obsolete form of démon.

Swedish

Noun

dæmon c

1. Archaic form of demon.
   • 2 October 1834, Reverend Hallström, “Konstitutions-Utskottets Memorial, med betänkande och förslag, angående Landtdagar [Memorial of the Constitutional Committee, with considerations and proposals regarding State Diet]”, 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, […]