daemon

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈdiː.mən/    美 /ˈdiː.mən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A minor deity or divinity.
    — 2018, Carolyn Graves-Brown, Daemons and Spirits in Ancient Egypt, University of Wales Press, page 46, On some apotropaic wands the hippopotamus daemon bites or devours a person.⁸⁸ On a well-known New Kingdom papyrus, Taweret, who is named, is listed amongst evil daemons.
  2. A process (a running program) that does not have a controlling terminal. Unix
  3. A muse, a personified source of inspiration, especially one that also causes anguish.
    — That is why those of exceptionally "daemonic temperament", those who cannot early and thoroughly subdue the daemon within them, are racked by disquietude. Ever and again the daemon snatches the helm from their control and steers them (helpless as straws in the blast) into the heart of the storm, perchance to shatter them on the rocks of destiny.
  4. An idea depicted as an entity.
  5. Archaic spelling of demon. alt-of,archaic

词形变化

daemons plural daemones plural daemons plural dæmon alternative daimon alternative demon alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
daemonism daemonology
相关词
agathodaemon cacodaemon cacodemon cacodaemonic cacodemonic cacodaemoniacal daemonic daimon eudaemon genius muse tutelary deity

词源

词源 1
A borrowing of Latin daemōn (“tutelary deity”), from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “dispenser, tutelary deity”).
词源 2
A reference to Maxwell's demon. The putative derivation from "disk and execution monitor" is generally considered a backronym.
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