Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdews/ [ˈd̪ews̺]
- Rhymes: -ews
- Hyphenation: Deus
Proper noun
Deus m
- God (in a Christian context)
1775, María Francisca Isla y Losada, Romance:Sòs mentes en Deus do Céo,
agarimo podo achàr,
pois cuitadiña de min;
já non teño Pay, nin Nay!- Just in God of Heaven
shelter I can find
Because, pity me,
No longer I have mum or dad
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “Deus”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “Deus”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “Deus”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “Deus”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Etymology
From deus (“god, deity”).
Proper noun
Deus m sg (irregular, genitive Deī); second declension
- God
207 CE – 208 CE,
Tertullian,
Adversus Marcionem 1.29.8:
- Gratus esses, o dee haeretice, si isses in dispositionem Creatoris
- You would be thankful, oh you heretic god [of Marcion's], if you checked the allotment of the Creator
405 CE,
Jerome,
Vulgate Genesis.28.13:
- Ego sum Dominus Deus Abraham patris tui et Deus Isaac
- I am the Lord God, of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac
405 CE,
Jerome,
Vulgate Psalmi.29.3, (Psalms 30:2 in modern numbering):
- Domine Deus meus, clamavi ad te et sanasti me
- God my lord, I called you and you healed me
Descendants
- Gallo-Italic
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Occitano-Romance
- Old French: Deu, Dieu
- Middle French: Dieu
- French: Dieu (see there for further descendants)
- Norman:
- Cotentinais: Dùu
- Guernésiais: Dju, Gyu
- Jèrriais: Dgieu
- Sercquiais: Dji
- Picard: Diu
- Walloon: Diu, Dié
- Rhaeto-Romance
- Friulian: Diu
- Ladin: Dî
- Romansch: Dieu
- Sardinian: Déu
- Venetan: Dio
- West Iberian
- Aragonese: Dios
- Old Leonese:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: Deus
- Old Spanish: Dios
Proper noun
Deus m
- God (the deity of monotheistic religions)