deity

See also: $DEITY

English

Etymology

From Middle French deité, from Latin deitās.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdiː.ɪ.ti/, /ˈdeɪ.ɪ.ti/

  • More traditional UK pronunciation

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  • Alternative UK pronunciation

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.ə.ti/, [ˈdi.ə.ɾi]
• Hyphenation: de‧i‧ty

Noun

deity (plural deities)

1. The state of being a god; divine characteristics, godhead. [from 14th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.X.4:

     Thou seest all, yet none at all sees thee: / All that is by the working of thy Deitee.

2. A divine being; a god or goddess. [from 14th c.]

(Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:god

Hyponyms

• household deity

Related terms

Terms etymologically related to deity

• deicide

• deify

Translations

essential nature of a god, divinity

• Arabic: مَعْبُود‎‎ m (maʿbūd)
• Belarusian: боскасць f (bóskascʹ)
• Bulgarian: божественост f (božéstvenost)
• Catalan: deïtat f, divinitat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 神威 (zh) (shénwēi), 神力 (zh) (shénlì), 神性 (zh) (shénxìng)

• Czech: božství n
• Dutch: godheid (nl) f
• Estonian: jumalus
• Finnish: jumaluus (fi)
• French: déité (fr) f, divinité (fr) f
• Galician: deidade (gl) f
• German: Gottheit (de) f
• Greek: θεότητα (el) f (theótita)
• Hebrew: אלוהות‎‎ f (elohút)
• Italian: divinità (it) f, deità f
• Japanese: 神性 (しんせい, shinsei)
• Khmer: ទេវ (km) (de va)

• Latin: deitas f
• Macedonian: божественост f (bóžestvenost)
• Malay: ketuhanan, kedewaan
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: guddom m

  Nynorsk: guddom m

• Polish: bóstwo (pl) n, boskość (pl) f
• Portuguese: divindade (pt) f, deidade (pt)
• Romanian: divinitate (ro) f
• Russian: боже́ственность (ru) f (božéstvennostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: божанственост f

  Roman: božanstvenost (sh) f

• Slovak: božstvo n
• Slovene: božanstvo (sl) n, božanskost f
• Spanish: deidad (es) f, divinidad (es) f
• Thai: เทพ (th) (têep)
• Ukrainian: божественність (uk) f (božéstvennistʹ)

a powerful entity that possesses numerous miraculous powers

• Albanian: hyj (sq) m, hyjni (sq) m, perëndi (sq) m
• Bulgarian: божество (bg) n (božestvo)
• Catalan: deïtat f, divinitat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 神 (zh) (shén), 神明 (zh) (shénmíng)

• Crimean Tatar: mabut
• Czech: božstvo n
• Dutch: godheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: dio (eo)
• Finnish: jumala (fi), jumalatar (fi), jumalolento
• French: déité (fr) f
• Georgian: ღვთაება (ɣvtaeba), ღმერთი (ɣmerti)
• German: Gott (de) m, Gottheit (de) f
• Greek: θεότητα (el) f (theótita)
• Hebrew: אלוהים‎‎ (he) (elohím), אל‎‎ (he) m (él)
• Ido: deo (io)
• Italian: divinità (it) f
• Japanese: 神仏 (ja) (shin'butsu)

• Latin: deus (la) m
• Latvian: dievība f
• Macedonian: божество n (bóžestvo)
• Malay: tuhan, dewa m, dewi f
• Norwegian: gud (no) m

  Bokmål: guddom m

  Nynorsk: guddom m

• Persian: ایزد‎‎ (izad)
• Polish: bóstwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: deus (pt) m, deusa (pt) f, divindade (pt) f
• Romanian: dumnezeu (ro) f, divinitate (ro) f
• Russian: божество́ (ru) n (božestvó)
• Slovak: božstvo n
• Slovene: božanstvo (sl) n
• Spanish: dios (es) m, diosa (es) f, deidad (es) f, divinidad (es) f
• Tagalog: anito, diyus-diyusan
• Yoruba: olukaluku

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} istenség (hu)
• Kannada: ^{(please verify)} ದೇವ (kn) (deeva)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 신성 (ko) (sinseong)

• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} zeitate (ro) f
• Slovak: (1, 2) ^{(please verify)} božstvo n, (2) ^{(please verify)} bôžik m
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} దైవం (te) (daivaṃ)

See also

• cosmocrat
• deism
• god
• godliness
• theism

Anagrams

• diety, etyid