英语
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
名词
daimon（复数 daimons）
- demon 之同义词，特别是：
- (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，卷号LXV，期号CCCLXXXVII，Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.:Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, OCLC 29046351, 页号121:
- 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 875636599, 页号163:
- 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 807818556, 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，卷号1，期号1，Madison, Wis.:University of Wisconsin Press, OCLC 56138001:
- 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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- (希腊神话) 守护一个人或一个地方的神祇
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
发音
名词
daimòn m
日语
罗马化
daimon
