dios
Asturian
Latin
Old Spanish
Etymology
From Latin deus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deywós.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdios/
Noun
dios m (plural dioses)
- god, deity
- c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 50r. a.
- Seńor dios de iſrl' no a tal / dios en los cielos cuemo tu ní de yuſo en la tierra […]
- Lord, God of Israel, there is no god like you in the heavens or on earth […]
- Seńor dios de iſrl' no a tal / dios en los cielos cuemo tu ní de yuſo en la tierra […]
- c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 50r. a.
Proper noun
dios m
- God, the Judeo-Christian god
- c. 1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 1r. a.
- [R] / emont por la gracia de dios. arço / biſpo de Toledo. a don alemeric. arçi / diano de antiochia […]
- Remont, by the grace of God, archbishop of Toledo, to don Almeric, archdeacon of Antioch […]
- [R] / emont por la gracia de dios. arço / biſpo de Toledo. a don alemeric. arçi / diano de antiochia […]
- Idem, f. 1r. b.
- El to clerigo almerich. a / Rçidiano de antiochẏa. réde gŕas / adios & atẏ.
- Your cleric Almerich, archdeacon of Antioch, gives thanks to God and to you.
- El to clerigo almerich. a / Rçidiano de antiochẏa. réde gŕas / adios & atẏ.
- c. 1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 1r. a.
Palauan
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish dios (cf. Ladino dio), from Latin deus (“god, deity”), from Old Latin deivos (“god, deity”), from Proto-Italic *deiwos (“god, deity”), from Proto-Indo-European *deywós (“god, deity”), from *dyew- (“sky, heaven”).
The form is unusual in that it was derived from the Latin nominative instead of the accusative deum. This is probably due to the frequent use of the vocative, for which the nominative form was used in Vulgar Latin. There are similar examples in Old French and Old Occitan, where the word for God may appear in the nominative form regardless of its syntactic function, and in Middle French the forms Dieux and Dieu were used alongside each other. Compare also personal names like the Spanish Carlos, Marcos. Alternatively, or additionally, the word may have been influenced by Ecclesiastical Latin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdjos/ [ˈd̪jos]
Audio (Colombia) (file) - Rhymes: -os
- Syllabification: dios
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “dios”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014