Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ðemónion/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ðemónion/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ðemónion/

Noun

δαιμόνιον • ‎(daimónion) n ‎(genitive δαιμονίου); second declension

1. the divine Power, the Deity, the Divinity
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.87
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 2.23.8, (compare 3.18.2)
   • 343 BCE, Demosthenes, On the False Embassy 239
   • 341 BCE, Demosthenes, Third Philippic 54
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Epinomis 992.D
2. an inferior divine being, demon
   • 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 202.E
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.1.2
   • 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 24.B
   1. the name by which Socrates calls his genius, or the spirit that dwelt within him
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.1.2
      • 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 40.A
      • 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 151.A
      • 380 BCE, Plato, Euthydemus 272.E
   2. a demon, evil spirit

Inflection

Descendants

• Latin: daemonium

References

• δαιμόνιον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• δαιμόνιον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «δαιμόνιον» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «δαιμόνιον» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G1140”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • deity idem, page 206.
  • demon idem, page 209.
  • familiar idem, page 305.
  • genius idem, page 357.