daimon

英語

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

詞源

古希臘語 δαίμων (daímōn, 「dispenser, tutelary deity」) 的現代羅馬化，以將其古希臘意義與後來的概念 demons 區分開來。

發音

• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈdʌɪməʊn/

  • 音頻（英國）：

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• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈdaɪˌmoʊn/
• 斷字：dai‧mon

名詞

daimon (複數 daimons)

1. demon之同義詞，特別是：
   1. (希臘神話) 守護一個人或一個地方的神祇
      • 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 頁:

        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 頁:

        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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派生詞彙

• daimonic

翻譯

tutelary deity — 參見：tutelary deity

異序詞

• Amidon, Imonda, domain, domina

豪薩語

詞源

借自英語 diamond。

發音

• 國際音標^(幫助): /dái.mòn/
  • (標準卡諾豪薩語) 國際音標^(幫助): [déi.mɔ̀ŋ]

名詞

daimòn m

1. 鑽石

日語

羅馬化

daimon

1. だいもん 的羅馬字轉寫
2. ダイモン 的羅馬字轉寫