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 |etymtx=-ονος<br />Grammatical information: m. f.<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">godlike power, god</b> (Il.).<br />Derivatives: Adj. <b class="b3">δαιμόνιος</b> <b class="b2">belonging to δ.</b> (Il.); on <b class="b3">δαιμόνιε</b> s. E. Brunius-Nilsson <b class="b3">Δαιμόνιε</b>. Diss. Uppsala 1955; n. <b class="b3">δαιμόνιον</b> <b class="b2">godlike power</b>, "daimonion" (Ion.-Att.); <b class="b3">δαιμονικός</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Plu.); <b class="b3">δαιμονιακός</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (PMag. Osl. 1, 143); <b class="b3">δαιμονιώδης</b> <b class="b2">like a δ.</b> (Ep. Jac., Prokl.). - Rare and late <b class="b3">δαιμονίς</b> (Procl.) and <b class="b3">δαιμόνισσα</b> (PMag. Leid. W. 16, 48). - On <b class="b3">δαιμονή</b> (Alkm. 69?), s. Schwyzer 524. - Denomin. <b class="b3">δαιμονάω</b> <b class="b2">be possessed by a δ.</b> (A.), <b class="b3">δαιμονιάω</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Phld.), <b class="b3">δαιμονητιᾳ̃ δαιμονίζεται</b>. <b class="b3">Κρῆτες</b> H., after verbs of disease in <b class="b3">-άω</b>, <b class="b3">-ιάω</b> and <b class="b3">-ητιάω</b> (Schwyzer 731f.); <b class="b3">δαιμονίζομαι</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Philem.) with <b class="b3">δαιμονισμός</b> (Vett. Val.), <b class="b2">become a god</b> (S. Fr. 173, H.); <b class="b3">δαιμονιάζομαι</b> = <b class="b3">δαιμονιάω</b> (pap.). - Often as 2. member of compounds: bahuvrihi (<b class="b3">βαρυ-</b>, <b class="b3">δυσ-</b>); substantives (<b class="b3">ἀγαθο-</b>, <b class="b3">ἀνθρωπο-</b>).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [175] <b class="b2">*deh₂-(i-)</b> [[cut]], [[divide]]<br />Etymology: To [[δαίομαι]] (s. v.), as [[divider]] (cf. v. Wilamowitz Glaube 1, 363); cf. OP <b class="b2">baga-</b>, OCS [[bogъ]] [[god]] beside Av. <b class="b2">baga-</b> [[part]], Skt. <b class="b2">bhága-</b> <b class="b2">id.</b>, to <b class="b2">bhájati</b> [[divide]]. Not prop. "Zerreißer, Fresser (der Leichen)" as god of death, which does not fit the meaning of <b class="b3">δαίμων</b>. - See Nilsson Gr. Rel.2 1, 216ff. On more recent developments s. Chantraine CRAI 1954, 452-5.
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+|mdlsjtxt=[Perh. from [[δαίω]] B, to [[divide]] or [[distribute]] destinies.]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> a god, [[goddess]], like [[θεός]], θεά, Hom., Trag., etc.:—in Hom. also [[deity]] or [[divine]] [[power]] ([[θεός]] denotes a god in [[person]]), Lat. [[numen]]; πρὸς δαίμονα [[against]] the [[divine]] [[power]]; σὺν δαίμονι with it, by its [[favour]], Il.:—so, κατὰ δαίμονα, [[nearly]] = τύχηι, by [[chance]], Hdt.; ἐν τῶι δ. = [[θεῶν]] ἐν γούνασι, Soph.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> one's [[daemon]] or [[genius]], one's lot or [[fortune]], στυγερὸς [[δαίμων]] Od.; δαίμονος [[αἶσα]] κακή Od.: absol. [[good]] or ill [[fortune]], Trag.; esp. of the [[evil]] [[genius]] of a [[family]], Aesch.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> δαίμονες, in Hes., are the souls of men of the [[golden]] age, forming the [[link]] [[between]] gods and men:—[[later]], of any departed souls, Lat. manes, [[lemures]], Luc.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> in NTest. an [[evil]] [[spirit]], a [[demon]], [[devil]].
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