diabolus

See also: Diabolus

English

Etymology

From Latin diabolus. Doublet of devil, diable, and diablo.

Noun

diabolus (plural diaboluses)

(music) Synonym of tritone.

Latin

Alternative forms

diabulus, zabulus, zabolus (phonetic spellings)
Diabolus, Zabolus, Zabulus (when used as a proper noun)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos, “slanderer”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [diˈa.bɔ.ɫʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [d̪iˈaː.bo.lus]
Note: the three root vowels are phonemically short, but all are found lengthened in verse in order to fit the metre.^[1]

Noun

diabolus m (genitive diabolī); second declension

devil

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	diabolus	diabolī
genitive	diabolī	diabolōrum
dative	diabolō	diabolīs
accusative	diabolum	diabolōs
ablative	diabolō	diabolīs
vocative	diabole	diabolī

Derived terms

Descendants

(probably all semi-learned)

Dalmatian:
- diaul
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: diavolo
- Neapolitan: diàvolo, diàvoro, riàvolo, riàbolo, diaulo, tiaolo
- Sicilian: diàvulu, riàvulu
North Italian:
- Emilian: dièvol, diavo, diàvel, dièval
- Friulian: diaul
- Ligurian: diâo, diâvo
- Lombard: diaul, deàul
  Eastern Lombard: giaul
- Piedmontese: diau, dièu, diavo
- Romagnol: geàvol, gevle, dièval
- Romansch: diavel
- Venetan: diavoło, diol, diauło, diaolo, diaoło, diaol, dial
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: diâblo
- Old French: deable, diable
  - Middle French: diable, Diable (proper noun), dyable
    - French: diable, yiable (Canada)
      - Haitian Creole: dyab
      - → English: diable, diablo
      - Chinook Jargon: le diaub
    - Norman: dgiâbl'ye (Jersey), diablle (France)
  - Walloon: diale
Occitano-Romance:
- Aragonese: diaple
  Ribagorçan: diaplle
- Catalan: diable
- Old Occitan: diable, diabol
  - Occitan: diable (all dialects)
    Nord-Occitan: diablhe
West Iberian:
- Asturian: diablu ⇒ diañu
- Old Galician-Portuguese: diaboo, diabre, diabo, diabro, diablo, diabre
  - Galician: diaño, deño, diallo, dianllo
  - Portuguese: diabo, diá, diabro, diacho, dianho, dienho
    - Kadiwéu: diaabo
    - Tetum: diabu
    - →? Malayalam: ദിയാബ്ല് (diyāblŭ)
- Old Spanish: diablo, diabolo (very early Old Spanish, 10th century)
  - Ladino: diavlo
  - Spanish: diablo, diaulo (Chile, colloquial, rare)
    - → English: diablo
    - → Tagalog: diyablo
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: diàbulu, diàulu, diàvulu
→ Albanian: djall
→ Proto-Basque: *deabulu
- Basque: *deaburu, deabru
→ Belarusian: д’я́бал (dʺjábal)
→ Proto-Brythonic: *diaβul (see there for further descendants)
→ English: diabolus
→ Proto-West Germanic: *diubul (see there for further descendants)
→ Hawaiian: diabolo
→ Old Irish: díabul (see there for further descendants)
→ Old Norse: djǫfull (see there for further descendants)
→ Macedonian: ѓавол (ǵavol)
→ Malagasy: devoly
→ Old Czech: diábel (learned) (see there for further descendants)
→ Slovak: diabol

References

“diabolus” in volume 5, part 1, column 940, line 65 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present

^ Peter Christian Jacobsen and Peter Orth (14 June 2020), “Materialien zu einem Lexikon der irregulären lateinischen Prosodie”, in www.mgh.de‎^[1] (in German)

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