deus

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) god, deity

Etymology
From, from , from. An o-stem derivative from, from which also and.


 * dẹ̄vos, -om, -ōs > dẹ̄os, -om, -ōs with regular loss of -v- before a rounded vowel; it was also lost between identical vowels, followed by contraction: *dẹ̄vẹ̄(s) > . As a result, the close -ẹ̄- escaped the regular raising to /ī/ of urban (but not dialectal) Latin, instead merging with /ē/, which itself underwent raising. The remaining genitive singular *dī was regularised to, while the vocative became part of the paradigm of the newly-reshaped . de- was later analogicaly introduced into the plural; the form  is absent from Plautus, and might have been reincorporated from a contraction of  (with the same condition as before), or even be purely orthographic.

Cognates with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, Samogitian (Žemaitiškai) deivs, 🇨🇬.

Despite its superficial similarity in form and meaning, not related to 🇨🇬 — the Latin cognate of the latter is 🇨🇬.

Noun

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

Usage notes

 * The regularly constructed vocative singular form would be *dee, but this inflection is not attested in Classical Latin; polytheistic Romans had no formal use for vocally addressing one of the many Roman deities by a generic term for god rather than address a deity by proper name. In Late Latin, following Rome's conversion to monotheistic Christianity, Dee and Deus were adopted as the vocative singular form to address the Christian God, attested to throughout the 4th century AD Biblical Latin Vulgate Bible of St. Jerome. Some scholars suggest  was used as the classical vocative singular, while others believe the form simply did not exist prior to Christian Latin. However the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae and Oxford Latin Dictionary assert that the classical vocative singular was in fact deus, citing its rhetorical usage by Roman physician Scribonius Largus in the 1st century AD.

Coordinate terms

 * (goddess)

Descendants

 * Eastern Romance
 * Italo-Dalmatian
 * Occitano-Romance
 * Rhaeto-Romance
 * West Iberian
 * Occitano-Romance
 * Rhaeto-Romance
 * West Iberian
 * Occitano-Romance
 * Rhaeto-Romance
 * West Iberian
 * Rhaeto-Romance
 * West Iberian
 * Rhaeto-Romance
 * West Iberian
 * Rhaeto-Romance
 * West Iberian
 * Rhaeto-Romance
 * West Iberian
 * West Iberian
 * West Iberian
 * West Iberian
 * West Iberian
 * West Iberian

Etymology
From, , the masculine and feminine accusative singulars of. The nominative form come from plural 🇨🇬, altered from  under analogy with forms like.

Numeral

 * 1) two

Etymology
From. See for more information.

Proper noun

 * 1)  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.
 * Through her, God forgave us of Adam’s sin. Of the apple he tasted, because she felt very anguished.

Etymology
From, from , unusual in that it was derived from the nominative instead of the accusative , from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) god; deity

Etymology
From (compare 🇨🇬), from, masculine accusative of.

Numeral

 * 1) two