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Deus
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De·us
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əs
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ʊs
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noun
God.
Abbreviation:
D.
Origin:
1250–1300;
<
Latin:
god, earlier
deiuos;
cognate with
Sanskrit
deva,
Lithuanian
diẽvas,
Old Irish
día
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Deus
(ˈdeɪʊs)
—
n
God
[related to Greek
Zeus
]
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Word Origin & History
deus
"God, a god," see
Zeus
; c.1300 as a Fr. interjection; never nativized, but appearing in adopted Latin expressions such as deus absconditus "hidden god."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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