diabolus
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See also: Diabolus
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin diabolus. Doublet of devil, diable, and diablo.
Noun[edit]
diabolus (plural diaboluses)
Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- diabulus, zabulus, zabolus (phonetic spellings)
- Diabolus, Zabolus, Zabulus (when used as a proper noun)
Etymology[edit]
From the Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos, “slanderer”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /diˈa.bo.lus/, [d̪iˈäbɔɫ̪ʊs̠]
audio (classical) (file) - (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /diˈa.bo.lus/, [d̪iˈäːbolus]
audio (ecclesiastical) (file) - Note: the three root vowels are phonemically short, but all are found lengthened in verse in order to fit the metre.[1]
Noun[edit]
diabolus m (genitive diabolī); second declension
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | diabolus | diabolī |
Genitive | diabolī | diabolōrum |
Dative | diabolō | diabolīs |
Accusative | diabolum | diabolōs |
Ablative | diabolō | diabolīs |
Vocative | diabole | diabolī |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
All are early borrowings from Medieval Church Latin.
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- → Albanian: djall
- → Proto-Basque: *deabulu
- → Belarusian: д’я́бал (dʺjábal)
- → Proto-Brythonic: *diaβul (see there for further descendants)
- → English: diabolus
- → Proto-West Germanic: *diubul (see there for further descendants)
- → Hawaiian: diabolo
- → Old Irish: díabul (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Norse: djǫfull (see there for further descendants)
- → Macedonian: ѓавол (ǵavol)
- → Malagasy: devoly
- → Old Czech: diábel
- → Slovak: diabol
References[edit]
- “diabolus” in volume 5, part 1, column 940, line 65 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
Further reading[edit]
- “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
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