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deus

Catalan

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈdɛws]

Noun

deus m pl

1. plural of deu (“tens”)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈdɛws]

Noun

deus f pl

1. plural of deu (“springs (of water)”)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈdɛws]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈdəws]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈdews]

Verb

deus

1. second-person singular present indicative of deure

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese deus, from Latin deus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdews/ [ˈd̪ews̺]
• Rhymes: -ews
• Hyphenation: deus

Noun

deus m (plural deuses, feminine deusa, feminine plural deusas)

1. god, deity

Related terms

• adeus
• Deus

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “deus”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “deus”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “deus”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “deus”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Latin

Alternative forms

• Deus (letter case, God in Abrahamic faiths)
• dius (used in the phrase "me dius fidius")

Etymology

From Old Latin deivos, from Proto-Italic *deiwos, from Proto-Indo-European *deywós. An o-stem derivative from *dyew- (“sky, heaven”), from which also diēs and Iuppiter.

Despite its superficial similarity in form and meaning, not related to Ancient Greek θεός (theós) — the Latin cognate of the latter is Latin fānum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈde.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd̪ɛː.us]

Noun

deus m (genitive deī, feminine dea); irregular, second declension

1. god, deity
2. the ancient Roman “Dī Penātēs,” personal or family gods of hearth and home, embodied as small statues or icons
3. epithet of high distinction

Usage notes

• The regularly constructed vocative singular form dee is not attested until the very end of the Classical period, when it occurs once in the works of Tertullian c. 200 AD. However, the form deus is found during the 1st century AD, in rhetorical usage by Roman physician Scribonius Largus, and Deus and Dee are found extensively from the 4th century AD onwards as forms of address for the Christian God, with the former being used in the Vulgate of St. Jerome. Some scholars have also suggested that dīve, the vocative singular of dīvus (“god; deity”), acted as a suppletive form of the vocative singular during the Classical period.

Declension

Second-declension noun (irregular).

¹Rare during the Classical period.
²From Late Latin onwards.

Coordinate terms

• dea (goddess)

Derived terms

Related terms

• deifer
• deificō
• deificus
• Deus

Descendants

References

Further reading

• “deus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “deus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "deus", 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)
• deus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[3], London: Macmillan and Co.

Old French

Alternative forms

• deuz

Etymology

From Latin duos, duas, the masculine and feminine accusative singulars of duō. The nominative form dui come from plural Vulgar Latin *duī, altered from duō under analogy with forms like duae.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deu̯s/

Numeral

deus (nominative dui)

1. two

Descendants

• Middle French: deux
  • French: deux
• Norman: deux
• → English: deuce

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Deus
• deꝯ (abbreviation)
• dṡ (abbreviation)

Etymology

From Latin deus (“god”). See deus for more information.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̪ews̺/

Proper noun

deus

1. (Christianity) God

   • Por ela nos perdõou / deus o pecado Dadam. / da maçãa que goſtou. per / que ſoffreu muit affan.

     Through her, God forgave us of Adam’s sin. Of the apple he tasted, because she felt very anguished.

Descendants

• Galician: deus
• Portuguese: deus (see there for further descendants)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• deos (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese deus (“God”), from Latin deus (“god, deity”), unusual in that it was derived from the nominative instead of the accusative (deum), from Old Latin deivos (“god, deity”), from Proto-Italic *deiwos (“god, deity”), from Proto-Indo-European *deywós (“god, deity”), from *dyew- (“sky, heaven”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -ews, (Portugal) -ewʃ
• Homophone: Deus

Noun

deus m (plural deuses, feminine deusa or (poetic) deia, feminine plural deusas or (poetic) deias)

1. god; deity

   Synonym: divindade

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• → Javanese: ꦢꦼꦗꦺꦴꦱ꧀ (dejos)
  • → Dutch: Joost
    • Afrikaans: josie
• → Chinese Pidgin English:
  • → English: joss

Further reading

• “deus”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “deus”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French deus (compare French deux), from Latin duōs, masculine accusative of duo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /døː/

Numeral

deus

1. two

Source: wiktionary.org