deus – Latin noun declension

Noun: deus
Hyphenation:

Gender: Masculine Declension: Second

Nominative

Singular	deus
Plural	dī; diī; deī

Genitive

Singular	deī
Plural	deōrum; deum

Dative

Singular	deō
Plural	dīs; diīs; deīs

Accusative

Singular	deum
Plural	deōs

Ablative

Singular	deō
Plural	dīs; diīs; deīs

Vocative

Singular	deus; dee
Plural	dī; diī; deī

Sample Sentences

[Hegio] Ergasile, salvē. [Ergasilus] Dī tē bene ament, Hēgiō. ([Hegio] How are you, Ergasilus? [Ergasilus] May the gods be kind to you, Hegio.) [c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi 1.2.29]
Hic vērō, dē quō ego ipse tam multa nunc dīcō. Prō, dī immortālēs! Quid est? Quid valet? (And as for him, the man that I myself have now spent so many words on. Good gods! What is he? What power does he exert?) [57 BCE, Cicero, De haruspicum responsis 42]
Sī nōn vīderant medicī, meritō essent culpandī[…]Et, ō bone deus, hī sunt ipsī, quī imputant suam culpam medicāmentīs quasi nihil proficientibus! (If physicians didn't see this, they deserved to be blamed […] And, my god, these are the very people who blame their failure on medications, saying that they don't work!) [47 CE, Scribonius Largus, Compositiones medicamentorum 84.6–7, 17–19]
Sacrāvit parentem suum Caesar nōn imperiō, sed religiōne. Nōn appellāvit eum, sed fēcit deum. (Augustus deified his father [Julius] not by the exercise of power, but by creating an attitude of reverence. He did not just call him a god, but made him be one.) [ca. 19 BCE – ca. 31 CE, Velleius Paterculus, Historia Romana 2.126]
In prīncipiō erat Verbum, et Verbum erat apud Deum, et Deus erat Verbum. (In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word.) [c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate John.1.1]
multa quoque et bellō passūs, dum conderet urbem, īnferretque deōs Latiō. (And [Aeneas] also suffered much in war, until he could found a city, and could carry his gods into Latium.

(Within the context of ancient Roman religious beliefs, the safe transfer of Aeneas’s family gods from Troy to Italy was symbolically as meaningful as the arrival of the man himself. See: Di Penates.)) [29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 1.5–6]
fēcī idem quod in Πολιτείᾳ deus ille noster Platō. (I did the same thing as our good old everything, Plato, had done in his Republic.) [68 BCE – 44 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum 4.16]
Entelle, hērōum quondam fortissime frūstrā[…]Ubi nunc nōbīs deus ille, magister nēquīquam memorātus, Eryx?[…] ("Entellus, once bravest of heroes, though in vain […] Where now is that divine Eryx [the Sicilian king], whom you have vaunted to be your teacher?) [29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 5.392–393]

Nouns inflected like deus

deus,

Etymology

1. From Old Latin deivos, from Proto-Italic *deiwos, from Proto-Indo-European *deywós. An o-stem derivative from *dyew- (“sky, heaven”), from which also diēs and Iuppiter.
2. Details
3. Doublet of dīvus: dẹ̄vos, -om, -ōs > dẹ̄os, -om, -ōs with regular loss of -v- before a rounded vowel; it was also lost between identical vowels, followed by contraction: *dẹ̄vẹ̄(s) > dī(s). As a result, the close -ẹ̄- escaped the regular raising to /ī/ of urban (but not dialectal) Latin, instead merging with /ē/, which itself underwent raising. The remaining genitive singular *dī was regularised to deī, while the vocative became part of the paradigm of the newly-reshaped dīvus. de- was later analogically introduced into the plural; the form diī(s) is absent from Plautus, and might have been reincorporated from a contraction of dīvī (with the same condition as before), or even be purely orthographic.
4. Cognates with Ancient Greek Ζεύς (Zeús), Ancient Greek Διεύς (Dieús), Sanskrit देव (devá), Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬎𐬎𐬀 (daēuua), Welsh duw, Lithuanian dievas, Latvian dievs, Persian دیو (div, “demon”).
5. Despite its superficial similarity in form and meaning, not related to Ancient Greek θεός (theós) — the Latin cognate of the latter is Latin fānum. See: Latvian Nouns 'dievs', Ancient Greek Nouns 'θεός', Latin Nouns 'fānum'.

Verbs referencing "deus"

Irish Nouns dia, Italian Nouns dio, French Nouns dieu, English Nouns joss, Asturian Nouns dios, Old Spanish Nouns dios, Spanish Nouns dios, Galician Nouns deus, Portuguese Nouns deus, Swedish Nouns deist, Romanian Nouns zeu, German Nouns Deismus, Czech Nouns deismus, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns deisme, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns deisme, Hungarian Nouns deizmus, Catalan Nouns déu, English Nouns pandeism, German Nouns Daus.