diabolus

See also: Diabolus

Latin

Alternative forms

• diabulus

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /diˈa.bo.lus/, [d̪iˈäbɔɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /diˈa.bo.lus/, [d̪iˈäːbolus]

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Noun

diabolus m (genitive diabolī); second declension

1. devil

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	diabolus	diabolī
Genitive	diabolī	diabolōrum
Dative	diabolō	diabolīs
Accusative	diabolum	diabolōs
Ablative	diabolō	diabolīs
Vocative	diabole	diabolī

Synonyms

• (devil): zābolus

Derived terms

• advocatus diaboli
• diabolicus

Descendants

(it is uncertain if any of the descendants, even in the Romance languages, are completely popularly inherited; they were more likely taken from Ecclesiastical Latin early in their history)

• Istriot: giavo
• Italian: diavolo
• Sardinian: diàbulu, diàulu, diàvulu
• → Albanian: djall
• → Asturian: diablu
• → Basque: deabru
• → Bulgarian: дявол (djavol)
• → Dalmatian: diaul
• → Friulian: diaul
• → Macedonian: ѓавол (ǵavol)
• → Malagasy: devoly
• → Old Czech: diábel
  • Czech: ďábel
  • → Old Polish: dyjabeł
    • Polish: diabeł
• → Old French: deable, diable
  • Middle French: diable, Diable (proper noun), dyable
    • French: diable, yiable (Canada)
      • Haitian Creole: dyab
      • → English: diable, diablo
      • Chinook Jargon: le diaub
    • Norman: dgiâbl'ye (Jersey), diablle (France)
  • Walloon: diale
• Hawaiian: diabolo
• → Old Irish: díabul
  • Irish: diabhal
  • Scottish Gaelic: diabhal
• → Old Occitan: diable, diabol
  • Catalan: diable
  • Occitan: diable
• → Old Norse: djǫfull
  • Icelandic: djöfull
  • Faroese: djevul, devul, devil
  • Norwegian:

    Bokmål: djevel

    Nynorsk: djevel

  • Old Swedish: diævul, diæffwol, diæffuill, diawl, diwell, dyfwll, dyffwill, diefwel
    • Swedish: djävel, djävul, jävel
  • Danish: djævel
• → Old Galician-Portuguese: diabo, diaboo, diablo, diabre
  • Portuguese: diabo
  • Galician: diaño
• → Old Spanish: diablo, diabolo (very early Old Spanish, 10th century)
  • Ladino: diavlo
  • Spanish: diablo, diaulo (Chile, colloquial, rare)
    • → English: diablo
    • → Tagalog: diyablo
• → Romansch: diavel
• → Russian: дьявол (dʹjavol)
• → Sicilian: diàvulu
• → Slovak: diabol
• → Venetian: diavoło, diol, diauło, diaolo, diaoło, diaol, dial
• → Welsh: diafol, diawl
• → Proto-West Germanic: *diubal (see there for further descendants)

References

• “diabolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• diabolus 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)
• diabolus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.