Concept
Deus
Overview
Deus (Classical Latin: [ˈd̪e.ʊs], Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈd̪ɛː.us]) is the Latin word for "god" or "deity" . Latin deus and dīvus ('divine') are in turn descended from Proto-Indo-European *deiwos, "celestial" or "shining", from the same root as *Dyēus, the reconstructed chief god of the Proto-Indo-European pantheon.
In Classical Latin, deus ("dea" in the feminine) was a general noun referring to a deity, while in technical usage a divus or diva was a figure who had become divine, such as a divinized emperor. In Late Latin, Deus came to be used mostly for the Christian God. It was inherited by the Romance languages in Galician and Portuguese Deus, Catalan and Sardinian Déu, French and Occitan Dieu, Friulian and Sicilian Diu, Italian Dio, Spanish Dios and (for the Jewish God) Ladino דייו/דיו Dio/Dyo, etc., and by the Celtic languages in Welsh Duw, and Irish and Scottish Gaelic Dia.
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But a better reason can be drawn from the state of glory itself. For in the reward to come a two-fold glory is looked for, spiritual and corporeal, not only in the human body to be glorified, but in the whole world which is to be made new. Now the spiritual glory began with the beginning of the world, in the blessedness of the angels, equality with whom is promised to the saints. It was fitting, then, that even from…
Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I
States what Deus is; the author is tied to Deus in the knowledge graph.
"Magnus" etiam homo uel deus dicitur atque ita quasi ipse sit homo magnus uel deus magnus; sed homo tantum magnus, deus uero ipsum magnus exsistit. Reliqua uero neque de deo neque de ceteris praedicantur. Nam ubi uel de homine uel de deo praedicari potest, de homine ut in foro, de deo ut ubique, sed ita ut non quasi ipsa sit res id quod praedicatur de qua dicitur.
Boethius, The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
Names Deus several times.
First of all, languages are by this simplification rendered more prolix, several words having become necessary to express what could have been expressed by a single word before. Thus the words, _Dei_ and _Deo_, in the Latin, sufficiently show, without any addition, what relation the object signified is understood to stand in to the objects expressed by the other words in the sentence. But to express the same…
Adam Smith, The Essays of Adam Smith
States what Deus is.
Related ideas
- God in Christianity
- Greek language
- Book of Genesis
- Hinduism
- Ancient Greek
- Jerome
- Byzantine Empire
- Latin
- Archaic Greece
- Thomas Aquinas
- Greek mythology
- Roman Empire
- René Descartes
- Root (linguistics)
- Skepticism
- Roman mythology
- Theism
- Zeus
- Deity
- Ancient Rome
- Proto-Indo-European language
- Evil demon
- Deism
- God (word)
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Deism.