deum

See also: Deum and deûm

Latin

Alternative forms

deûm (genitive plural)

Noun

deum

accusative singular of deus
(poetic) genitive plural of deus
- c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 63.68:
  ego nunc deum ministra et Cybeles famula ferar?
  Shall I now be called a ministress of the gods and a handmaid of Cybele?
- c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5:
  ...pandere palmas ante deum delubra
  ...to extend one's palms before the shrines of the gods.

References

deum 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)

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