The corpus record — Latin

daemonium

daemonium · n

A lesser divinity, a little spirit

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Where it lives

De Testimionio Animae 7 · 31.32/10k
De idolatria 13 · 18.84/10k
De Spectaculis 11 · 17.28/10k
Ad Scapulam 2 · 13.4/10k
De Anima 11 · 4.63/10k
Apologeticum 9 · 4.51/10k
De Oratione 1 · 2.23/10k
De Corona 1 · 2.06/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 1 · 1.69/10k
Adversus Praxean 2 · 1.35/10k
Adversus Marcionem 10 · 1.21/10k

Densest 12 of 20 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

daemŏnĭum — Lewis & Short

daemŏnĭum, ii, n., = daimo/nion.

I A lesser divinity, a little spirit, Manil. 2, 938; Tert. Apol. 32.—

II An evil spirit, demon, App. Mag. p. 315, 10; Vulg. Deut. p. 32, 17; Psa. 95, 5 et saep.; Tert. Apol. 21 al.

In the wild

daemonium Tertullian, De idolatria 11
daemoniorum Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 56.2
daemonia Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.26
daemoniorum Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 2.10.p8
daemonium Tertullian, De Anima 1
daemonio Tertullian, De Anima 57

6 of 91 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.