The corpus record — Latin

daemon

daemon · m

a spirit

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Rudens 165 · 139.08/10k
Ad Scapulam 2 · 13.4/10k
Octavius 12 · 10.35/10k
Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Apologeticum 15 · 7.51/10k
De Spectaculis 4 · 6.29/10k
De Corona 3 · 6.17/10k
De Anima 11 · 4.63/10k
Peristephanon Liber 8 · 4.55/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 1 · 2.74/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 1 · 2.56/10k
Contra Symmachum 3 · 2.5/10k

Densest 12 of 27 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. daemon — Lewis & Short

daemon, ŏnis, m., = dai/mwn, a spirit, genius, lar (post-class.).

I In gen.: App. de Deo Socr. p. 49, 5: bonus = a)gaqodai/mwn, in astrology, the last but one of the twelve celestial signs, Firm. Math. 2, 19: melior, Jul. Val. Res gest. A. M. 1, 27.—

II In eccl. writers: kat' e)coxh/n, an evil spirit, demon, Lact. 2, 14; Vulg. Levit. 17, 7; id. Jacob. 2, 19; Tert. Apol. 22 init., et saep.

2. Daemon — Lewis & Short

Daemon, ŏnis, m.,

I the name of a Greek sculptor, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 87.

In the wild

6 of 266 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. daemon (scan p. 187; entry #2886).

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