diabolus
See also: Diabolus
English
Etymology
From Latin diabolus. Doublet of devil, diable, and diablo.
Noun
diabolus (plural diaboluses)
- (music) Synonym of tritone
Latin
Alternative forms
- diabulus, zabulus, zabolus (phonetic spellings)
- Diabolus, Zabolus, Zabulus (when used as a proper noun)
Etymology
From the Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos, “slanderer”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /diˈa.bo.lus/, [d̪iˈäbɔɫ̪ʊs̠]
audio (classical) (file) - (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /diˈa.bo.lus/, [d̪iˈäːbolus]
audio (ecclesiastical) (file) - Note: the three root vowels are phonemically short, but all are found lengthened in verse in order to fit the metre.[1]
Noun
diabolus m (genitive diabolī); second declension
- devil
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | diabolus | diabolī |
| Genitive | diabolī | diabolōrum |
| Dative | diabolō | diabolīs |
| Accusative | diabolum | diabolōs |
| Ablative | diabolō | diabolīs |
| Vocative | diabole | diabolī |
Derived terms
- advocātus diabolī
- diabolicus
Descendants
All are early borrowings from Medieval Church Latin.
- Dalmatian:
- diaul
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: diavolo
- Neapolitan: diàvolo, diàvoro, riàvolo, riàbolo, diaulo, tiaolo
- Sicilian: diàvulu, riàvulu
- North Italian:
- Emilian: dièvol, diavo, diàvel, dièval
- Friulian: diaul
- Ligurian: diâo, diâvo
- Lombard: diaul, deàul
- Eastern Lombard: giaul
- Piedmontese: diau, dièu, diavo
- Romagnol: geàvol, gevle, dièval
- Romansch: diavel
- Venetian: diavoło, diol, diauło, diaolo, diaoło, diaol, dial
- Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: diâbllo
- Old French: deable, diable
- Middle French: diable, dyable
- French: diable, yiable
- Haitian Creole: dyab
- → English: diable, diablo
- Norman: dgiâbl'ye (Jersey), diablle (France)
- French: diable, yiable
- Walloon: diale
- Middle French: diable, dyable
- Occitano-Romance:
- Aragonese: diaple
- Ribagorçan: diaplle
- Catalan: diable
- Old Occitan: diable, diabol
- Occitan: diable (all dialects)
- Nord-Occitan: diablhe
- Occitan: diable (all dialects)
- Aragonese: diaple
- West Iberian:
- Asturian: diablu ⇒ diañu
- Old Portuguese: diabo, diaboo, diablo, diabre, diabro
- Galician: diabo, diabro ⇒ diaño
- Portuguese: diabo
- Old Spanish: diablo, diabolo
- Ladino: diavlo
- Spanish: diablo, diaulo
- → English: diablo
- → Tagalog: diyablo
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: diàbulu, diàulu, diàvulu
- → Albanian: djall
- → Proto-Basque: *deabulu
- Basque: *deaburu, deabru
- → Belarusian: д’я́бал (dʺjábal)
- → Proto-Brythonic: *diaβul (see there for further descendants)
- → English: diabolus
- → Proto-West Germanic: *diubul (see there for further descendants)
- → Hawaiian: diabolo
- → Old Irish: díabul (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Norse: djǫfull (see there for further descendants)
- → Macedonian: ѓавол (ǵavol)
- → Malagasy: devoly
- → Old Czech: diábel
- Czech: ďábel
- → Old Polish: dyjabeł (see there for further descendants)
- → Slovak: diabol
References
- “diabolus” in volume 5, part 1, column 940, line 65 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
- Peter Christian Jacobsen and Peter Orth (2020-06-14), “Materialien zu einem Lexikon der irregulären lateinischen Prosodie”, in www.mgh.de
Further reading
- “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- diabolus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette