The corpus record — Latin

semideus

semideus · adj

half-divine

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Where it lives

Achilleis 2 · 2.78/10k
Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Thebais 5 · 0.8/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

sēmĭ-dĕus — Lewis & Short

sēmĭ-dĕus, a, um, adj.,

I half-divine: heroes, i. e. the Argonauts, Stat. Th. 5, 373; called also, reges, id. ib. 3, 518; id. Acnill. 2, 363: parentes, id. Th. 9, 376: Manes, Luc. 9, 7: canes, i. e. Anubis, id. 8, 832 (al. semicanes dei): Dryades, Ov. H. 4, 49: Nymphae semideumque genus, id. Ib. 82; cf.: Silvanus arbiter umbrae Semideumque pecus, i. e. the Pans, Stat. Th. 6, 112.— Hence, subst.

1 sēmĭ-dĕus, i, m., a demigod: semideique deique, Ov. M. 14, 673; 1, 192.—

2 sēmĭ-dĕa, ae, f., a demigoddess: tres volucres, tres semideae, tres semipuellae, i. e. the Sirens, Aus. Idyll. 11, 21.

In the wild

semideos Statius, Achilleis 2.77
semideum Statius, Thebais 5.373
semideum Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 1.12
semideos Statius, Thebais 3.518
Semidei Lucan, Pharsalia 9.7
semideumque Ovid, Ibis 82

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Where it came from

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