Teufel

German

Etymology

From Old High German tiufal, ultimately from Latin diabolus, from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos). Cognate to Pennsylvania German Deiwel, Dutch duivel, Old Saxon diubol (German Low German Düwel, Dîwel), English devil.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɔʏ̯fəl/
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Noun

Teufel m (genitive Teufels, plural Teufel, diminutive Teufelchen n, feminine Teufelin)

  1. (singular only) the Devil, Satan
    • 1923, Sigmund Freud, Eine Teufelsneurose im siebzehnten Jahrhundert, in Imago: Zeitschrift für Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf die Geisteswissenschaften, volume 9, booklet 1 (Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag), page 14:
      Der böse Dämon des christlichen Glaubens, der Teufel des Mittelalters, war nach der christlichen Mythologie selbst ein gefallener Engel und gottgleicher Natur.
      The evil demon of the Christian belief, the devil of the middle ages, was according to the Christian mythology a fallen angel himself and of godlike nature.
  2. a devil, satan, i.e. a creature of hell, a demon, a fallen angel etc.
  3. a devil, satan, i.e. an evil person

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