daemon

Etymology 1
A borrowing of, from.

Noun

 * 1)  A minor deity or divinity.
 * 2) * 2018, Carolyn Graves-Brown, Daemons and Spirits in Ancient Egypt,, page 46,
 * On some apotropaic wands the hippopotamus daemon bites or devours a person.88 On a well-known New Kingdom papyrus, Taweret, who is named, is listed amongst evil daemons.
 * 1)  A muse, a personified source of inspiration, especially one that also causes anguish.
 * 2) * 2012, Eden Paul, Cedar Paul (translators),, The Struggle with the Daemon: Hölderlin, Kleist and Nietzsche, Pushkin Press, unnumbered page,
 * That is why those of exceptionally "daemonic temperament", those who cannot early and thoroughly subdue the daemon within them, are racked by disquietude. Ever and again the daemon snatches the helm from their control and steers them (helpless as straws in the blast) into the heart of the storm, perchance to shatter them on the rocks of destiny.
 * 1) * 2015,, The Daemon Knows, Penguin Random House (Random House), eBook edition, unnumbered page,
 * Coleridge, deep in daemons, looked to them for his poetic power: They gave him Kubla Khan, Christabel, and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. He welcomed his daemon or genius and yet feared it.
 * 1) An idea depicted as an entity.

Etymology 2
A reference to. The putative derivation from " and " is generally considered a backronym.

Noun

 * 1)  A process (a running program) that does not have a controlling terminal.

Usage notes

 * Often a daemon will run on a server.

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Finnish: taustaprosessi, palveluprosessi, daemoni
 * French:
 * German: Hintergrundprogramm
 * Greek: ,
 * Irish: daeman
 * Japanese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: де́мон

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) a genius loci, a lar, the protective spirit or godling of a place or household
 * 2)  the 11th of the 12 signs of the zodiac
 * 3)  a demon