devel
English
Noun
devel (plural devels)
Verb
devel (third-person singular simple present devels, present participle develling, simple past and past participle develled)
Anagrams
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English dēofol, dēoful, from earlier dīobul, from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos).
Pronunciation
Noun
devel (plural develes or defles or develen)
- Satan, Lucifer (in Early ME, without the definite article)
- a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Summoner's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 1693-1696:
- Right so as bees out swarmen from an hyve, / Out of the develes ers ther gonne dryve / Twenty thousand freres on a route / And thurghout helle swarmed al aboute...
- Just like bees swarm from a hive / Out of the devil's arse there were driven / Twenty thousand friars on a rout / And throughout hell they swarmed all about...
- A devil; an evil creature that resides in hell in Christianity
- A pagan or heretical god; a deity considered to be false or an idol.
- (figurative) A malicious or sinful person; one who is evil.
- (rare) A fantastic beast or monstrous creature.
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: devil, davil, debbil; diuel, divel; deuill, devel, devell, devill, diuell
- Scots: deil, deel, deevil
References
- “dẹ̄vel, devel (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-12.
Romani
Etymology
From Sanskrit देव (deva), from Proto-Indo-European *deywós.
Noun
devel m (plural devela)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Caló: debel
References
- Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “devel”, in ニューエクスプレス ロマ(ジプシー)語 [New Express Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, →ISBN, page 136
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