deity

See also: $DEITY

English

Etymology

From Middle French deité, from Latin deitās.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdiː.ɪ.tɪ/, /ˈdeɪ.ɪ.tɪ/, /ˈdeɪ̯ə.tɪ/
- More traditional UK pronunciation (file)
- Alternative UK pronunciation[1] (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdi.ə.ti/, [ˈdi.ə.ɾi], /ˈdeɪ.ə.ti/, [ˈdeɪ.ə.ɾi]
Hyphenation: de‧i‧ty

Noun

deity (countable and uncountable, plural deities)

Synonym of divinity: the state, position, or fact of being a god. [from 14th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.X.4:
  Thou seest all, yet none at all sees thee: / All that is by the working of thy Deitee.
A supernatural divine being; a god or goddess. [from 14th c.]
- 2000, Kenneth Seeskin, Searching for a Distant God: The Legacy of Maimonides, Oxford University Press (→ISBN), page 23:
  The crux of monotheism is not only belief in a single deity but belief in a deity who is different from everything else.

Synonyms

(a god): See Thesaurus:god

Hyponyms

household deity

Related terms

Terms etymologically related to deity

deicide

deify

Translations

divinity — see divinity

a god — See also translations at god,‎ God

Albanian: hyj (sq) m, hyjni (sq) m, perëndi (sq) m
Arabic: إِلٰه‎ m (ʾilāh), مَعْبُود‎ m (maʿbūd)
Belarusian: бо́ства n (bóstva), бажаство́ n (bažastvó)
Bulgarian: божество́ (bg) n (božestvó)
Catalan: deïtat f, divinitat (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 神 (zh) (shén), 神明 (zh) (shénmíng), 神靈 (zh), 神灵 (zh) (shénlíng)
Crimean Tatar: mabut
Czech: božstvo (cs) n
Dutch: godheid (nl) f
Dzongkha: ལྷ (lha)
Esperanto: dio (eo)
Fijian: kalou
Finnish: jumala (fi), jumalatar (fi), jumalolento
French: déité (fr) f, divinité (fr) f
Galician: divinidade f
Georgian: ღვთაება (ɣvtaeba), ღმერთი (ka) (ɣmerti)
German: Gott (de) m, Gottheit (de) f
Greek: θεότητα (el) f (theótita)
Hebrew: אלוהים \ אֱלֹהִים‎ (he) m (elohím), אֵל‎ (he) m (el)
Hindi: देवता (hi) m (devtā)
Hungarian: istenség (hu), isten (hu)
Ido: deo (io)
Italian: deità, divinità (it) f
Japanese: 神仏 (ja) (しんぶつ, shinbutsu), 神 (ja) (かみ, kami)
Korean: 신 (ko) (sin)

Latin: deus (la) m, deitas f, divinitas f,
Latvian: dievība f
Macedonian: божество n (božestvo)
Malay: tuhan, dewa m, dewi f
Norwegian: gud (no) m
Bokmål: guddom m

Nynorsk: guddom m
Persian: ایزد‎ (fa) (izad)
Polish: bóstwo (pl) n
Portuguese: deus (pt) m, deusa (pt) f, divindade (pt) f
Punjabi: ਭਗਵਾਨ (bhagvān)
Romanian: dumnezeu (ro) f, divinitate (ro) f
Russian: божество́ (ru) n (božestvó)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: божа̀нство n

Roman: božànstvo (sh) n
Slovak: božstvo n
Slovene: božanstvo (sl) n
Spanish: dios (es) m, diosa (es) f, deidad (es) f, divinidad (es) f
Tagalog: anito, diyus-diyusan, batha-bathalaan
Tibetan: ལྷ (lha)
Ukrainian: божество́ (uk) n (božestvó)
Urdu: دیوتا‎‎ m (deotā)
Vietnamese: thần (vi)
Yoruba: olukaluku

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

Kannada: ^{(please verify)} ದೇವ (kn) (dēva)
Korean: ^{(please verify)} 신성 (ko) (sinseong)

Romanian: ^{(please verify)} zeitate (ro) f
Slovak: (1, 2) ^{(please verify)} božstvo n, (2) ^{(please verify)} bôžik m
Telugu: ^{(please verify)} దైవం (te) (daivaṃ)

References

The American Heritage Book of English Usage: A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1996, →ISBN.

Anagrams

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[1] The American Heritage Book of English Usage: A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1996, →ISBN.