daemon

== English == === Etymology 1 === A borrowing of Latin daemōn (“tutelary deity”), from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, tutelary deity”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈdiː.mən/ Rhymes: -iːmən Hyphenation: dae‧mon ==== Noun ==== daemon (plural daemons or daemones) (mythology) A minor deity or divinity. 2018, Carolyn Graves-Brown, Daemons and Spirits in Ancient Egypt, University of Wales Press, 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. A muse, a personified source of inspiration, especially one that also causes anguish. 2015, Harold Bloom, 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. An idea depicted as an entity. Archaic spelling of demon. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== See also ===== === Etymology 2 === A reference to Maxwell's demon. The putative derivation from "disk and execution monitor" is generally considered a backronym. ==== Alternative forms ==== dæmon, daimon, demon ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈdiːmən/, /ˈdeɪmən/ Rhymes: -iːmən, -eɪmən Hyphenation: dae‧mon ==== Noun ==== daemon (plural daemons) (computing, Unix) A process (a running program) that does not have a controlling terminal. ===== Usage notes ===== In Unix, a daemon will often run on a server. ===== See also ===== ===== Translations ===== === Anagrams === Modane, Modena, moaned, modena, nomade == Dutch == === Noun === daemon m (plural daemonen or daemons, no diminutive) obsolete spelling of demon == Japanese == === Romanization === daemon Rōmaji transcription of ダエモン == Latin == === Alternative forms === demon (Medieval Latin) === Etymology === From Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, god, protective spirit”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈdae̯.moːn] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈdɛː.mon] === Noun === daemōn m (genitive daemonis); third declension a genius loci, a lar, the protective spirit or godling of a place or household (astrology) the 11th of the 12 signs of the zodiac (Ecclesiastical Latin) a demon ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== daemonicus ==== Related terms ==== daemonium cacodemon calodemon ==== Descendants ==== === References === “daemon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "daemon", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “daemon”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “daemon”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎[1] “daemon”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers