deify

English

WOTD – 19 August 2007

Etymology

From French déifier, from Latin deificāre, from deus (“god”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdeɪ.ɪ.faɪ/, /ˈdiː.ɪ.faɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdiː.ə.faɪ/, /ˈdeɪ.ə.faɪ/

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Verb

deify (third-person singular simple present deifies, present participle deifying, simple past and past participle deified)

1. (transitive) To make a god of (something or someone).
2. (transitive) To treat as worthy of worship; to regard as a deity.

Synonyms

• (to make a god of something): apotheosize, exalt, idealize

Related terms

• deific
• deification
• deified

Translations

to make a god of

• Arabic: أَلَّهَ‏‎ (ʾallaha)
• Bulgarian: обожествя́вам impf (obožestvjávam), боготворя́ (bg) impf (bogotvorjá)
• Catalan: deïficar (ca)
• Finnish: jumaloida, palvoa (fi)
• French: déifier (fr)
• German: als Gott verehren, vergöttern
• Greek: θεοποιώ (el) (theopoió)
• Italian: deificare, venerare (it)
• Latin: deificō
• Macedonian: боготвори impf (bogotvori), обожува impf (obožuva)

• Malay: mendewa-dewakan
• Polish: ubóstwiać (pl) impf
• Portuguese: deificar, endeusar (pt), divinizar
• Russian: обожествля́ть (ru) impf (obožestvljátʹ), боготвори́ть (ru) impf (bogotvorítʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: obožavati (sh) impf

• Spanish: deificar (es), endiosar (es)
• Tagalog: bathalain, diyusin
• Turkish: tanrılaştırmak (tr), ilahlaştırmak

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