diabolus

See also: Diabolus

Latin

Alternative forms

diabulus

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /diˈa.bo.lus/, [dɪˈa.bɔ.ɫʊs]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /diˈa.bo.lus/, [diˈaː.bo.lus]
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Noun

diabolus m (genitive diabolī); second declension

devil

Declension

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	diabolus	diabolī
genitive	diabolī	diabolōrum
dative	diabolō	diabolīs
accusative	diabolum	diabolōs
ablative	diabolō	diabolīs
vocative	diabole	diabolī

Synonyms

(devil): zābolus

Derived terms

Descendants

(it is uncertain if any of the descendants, even in the Romance languages, are completely popularly inherited; they were more likely taken from Ecclesiastical Latin early in their history)

→ Albanian: djall
→ Asturian: diablu
→ Basque: deabru
→ Bulgarian: дявол (djavol)
→ Dalmatian: diaul
→ Friulian: diaul
Istriot: giavo
Italian: diavolo
→ Macedonian: ѓавол (ǵavol)
→ Malagasy: devoly
→ Old Czech: diábel
- Czech: ďábel
- → Old Polish: dyjabeł
  - Polish: diabeł
→ Old Dutch: diuval
- Middle Dutch: duvel
  - Dutch: duivel, duvel
  - Limburgish: duvel
→ Old English: dēofol
- Scots: divil, deevil, deil, deel
- English: devil
  - → Chuukese: tefin
  - Tok Pisin: tewel
→ Old French: deable
- Middle French: diable, dyable
  - French: diable, yiable
    - Haitian Creole: dyab
    - → Esperanto: diablo
- Norman: dgiâbl'ye
- Walloon: diale
→ Old Frisian: diōvel
- North Frisian: düüwel
- Saterland Frisian: Düüwel
- West Frisian: duvel
→ Old Irish: díabul
- Irish: diabhal
- Scottish Gaelic: diabhal

→ Old High German: tiufal
- Alemannic German: Tüüfel
- German: Teufel, Deibel
- Luxembourgish: Däiwel
- Pennsylvania German: Deiwel
- Vilamovian: tojfuł
- Yiddish: טײַוול‎ (tayvl)
→ Old Occitan: diable, diabol
- Catalan: diable
- Occitan: diable
→ Old Norse: djǫfull
- Danish: djævel
- Faroese: djevul, devul
- Icelandic: djöfull
- Norwegian Bokmål: djevel
- Swedish: djävel, djävul, jävel
- Westrobothnian: däväl
→ Old Portuguese: diabo, diaboo, diablo, diabre
- Portuguese: diabo
→ Old Saxon: diuval
- Low German: Düvel
→ Old Spanish: diablo
- Ladino: diavlo
- Spanish: diablo
  - → Tagalog: diyablo
→ Romansch: diavel
→ Russian: дьявол (dʹjavol)
Sardinian: diàbulu, diàulu, diàvulu
→ Sicilian: diàvulu
→ Slovak: diabol
→ Venetian: diavoło, diol, diauło, diaolo, diaoło, diaol, dial
→ Welsh: diafol, diawl

References

diabolus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
diabolus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
diabolus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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