Where the Romanian word “demon” comes from
From Greek.
- DEX ’98 says
Din ngr. démonas. Cf. fr. démon.
→ Greek · DEX '98- Wiktionary says
- Old Slavic (a different language)
- The route, according to Wiktionary
- Old Church Slavonic демонъ ← Ancient Greek δαίμων
- In film dialogue
- 45 times per million words · number 1,427 among spoken words
- In Wikipedia
- 14 times per million words
- In Romanian prose, per million words
1825–1849 1850–1874 1875–1899 1900–1924 1925–1949 44 20 26 18 9.2 - Swap in a synonym
- drac (Inherited Latin), diavol (Old Slavic)
Definition on dexonline · The word’s full card
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