diabolus
See also: Diabolus
English
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos, “slanderer”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /diˈa.bo.lus/, [d̪iˈäbɔɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /diˈa.bo.lus/, [d̪iˈäːbolus]
audio (modern italianate) (file) - Note: the three root vowels are phonemically short, but all are found lengthened in verse in order to fit the metre.[1]
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | diabolus | diabolī |
| Genitive | diabolī | diabolōrum |
| Dative | diabolō | diabolīs |
| Accusative | diabolum | diabolōs |
| Ablative | diabolō | diabolīs |
| Vocative | diabole | diabolī |
Derived terms
Descendants
All are early borrowings from Medieval Church Latin.
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
- West Iberian:
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: diàbulu, diàulu, diàvulu
- → Albanian: djall
- → Proto-Basque: *deabulu
- Basque: *deaburu, deabru
- → Belarusian: д’я́бал (dʺjábal)
- → Proto-Brythonic: *diaβul (see there for further descendants)
- → English: diabolus
- → Proto-West Germanic: *diubul (see there for further descendants)
- → Hawaiian: diabolo
- → Old Irish: díabul (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Norse: djǫfull (see there for further descendants)
- → Macedonian: ѓавол (ǵavol)
- → Malagasy: devoly
- → Old Czech: diábel
- → Slovak: diabol
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’s 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.
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