daimon

英语

A spirit house – a shrine to the protective spirit of a place – on the island of Ko Kho Khao in Phang Nga Bay, Thailand

词源

古希腊语 δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, tutelary deity”) 的现代罗马化，以将其古希腊意义与后来的概念 demons 区分开来。

发音

• (标准英音) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈdʌɪməʊn/

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• (通用美式) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈdaɪˌmoʊn/
• 断字：dai‧mon

名词

daimon (复数 daimons)

1. demon之同义词，特别是：
   1. (希腊神话) 守护一个人或一个地方的神祇
      • 1890 January, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], “Over the Teacups”, 出自 The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, 第 LXV 卷, 第 CCCLXXXVII 期, Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, →OCLC，第 121 页:

        All at once, my daimōn—that other Me over whom I button my waistcoat when I button it over my own person—put it into my head to look up the story of Madame Saqui.

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      • 1891, W[alter] J[ames] Hoffman, The Mide’wiwin or “Grand Medicine Society” of the Ojibwa, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC，第 163 页:

        The object which first appears is adopted as the personal mystery, guardian spirit, or tutelary daimon of the entranced, and is never mentioned by him without first making a sacrifice.

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      • 1945, Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy: And its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →OCLC, book I, chapter 27:

        Marcus Aurelius is persuaded that God gives every man a special daimon as his guide – a belief which reappears in the Christian guardian angel.

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      • 1960, Charles I. Glicksberg, “Norman Mailer: The Angry Young Novelist in America”, 出自 Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, 第 1 卷, 第 1 期, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, →OCLC:

        He will release his pent-up rage and fear no evil, for his genius is with him, and his daimon bids him violate all the taboos of the literary marketplace.

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派生词汇

• daimonic

翻译

tutelary deity — 参见：tutelary deity

异序词

• Amidon, Imonda, domain, domina

豪萨语

词源

借自英语 diamond。

发音

• 国际音标^(帮助): /dái.mòn/
  • (标准卡诺豪萨语) 国际音标^(帮助): [déi.mɔ̀ŋ]

名词

daimòn m

1. 钻石

日语

罗马化

daimon

1. だいもん 的罗马字转写
2. ダイモン 的罗马字转写