diabolus

== English == === Etymology === From Latin diabolus. Doublet of devil, diable, and diablo. === Noun === diabolus (plural diaboluses) (music) Synonym of tritone. == Latin == === Alternative forms === diabulus, zabulus, zabolus (phonetic spellings) Diabolus, Zabolus, Zabulus (when used as a proper noun) === Etymology === From Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos, “slanderer”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [diˈa.bɔ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [diˈaː.bo.lus] Note: the three root vowels are phonemically short, but all are found lengthened in verse in order to fit the metre. === Noun === diabolus m (genitive diabolī); second declension devil ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== advocātus diabolī diabolicus ==== Descendants ==== (probably all semi-learned) === References === “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 === “diabolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "diabolus", 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) “diabolus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.