daemon
English
Etymology 1
A borrowing of Latin daemon (“tutelary deity”), from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, tutelary deity”).
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -iːmən
- Hyphenation: dae‧mon
Noun
daemon (plural daemons)
Derived terms
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Etymology 2
From Maxwell's demon; a derivation from “disk and execution monitor” is generally considered a backronym.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
daemon (plural daemons)
Usage notes
- (Unix): Often a daemon will be a server.
Translations
computing: a process that does not have a controlling terminal
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See also
Anagrams
Japanese
Romanization
daemon
Latin
Alternative forms
- demon (Medieval)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, god, protective spirit”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈdae̯.mon/, [ˈd̪äe̯mɔn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈde.mon/, [ˈd̪ɛːmon]
Noun
daemon m (genitive daemonis); third declension
- a genius loci, a lar, the protective spirit or godling of a place or household
- (astrology) the 11th of the 12 signs of the zodiac
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) a demon
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | daemon | daemonēs |
Genitive | daemonis | daemonium |
Dative | daemonī | daemonibus |
Accusative | daemonem | daemonēs daemonīs |
Ablative | daemone | daemonibus |
Vocative | daemon | daemonēs |
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Albanian: djemën
- Aromanian: demun
- English: daemon, demon
- Galician: demo
- German: Dämon
- Irish: deamhan
- Portuguese: demo
- Translingual: Felis daemon
References
- “daemon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- daemon in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- daemon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “daemon”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[1]
- “daemon”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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