deum

deum

See also: Deum and deûm

Latin

Alternative forms

• deûm (genitive plural)

Noun

deum

1. accusative singular of deus
2. (poetic, syncopated) genitive plural of deus

   c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 63.68:

   ego nunc deum ministra et Cybeles famula ferar?

   Shall I now be called a ministress of the gods and a handmaid of Cybele?

   c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5:

   ...pandere palmas ante deum delubra

   ...to extend one's palms before the shrines of the gods.

References

• deum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)