deity

• n.神; 神性

PIE*dyeuの「輝く」、「照らす」、「神」、語源的にはdiurnal、diva、Zeusと同じ。

deity

deity: [14] Deity comes via Old French deite from late Latin deitās ‘godhood, divinity’, a derivative of Latin deus ‘god’. This traces its ancestry back to Indo-European *deiwos, which has links with other words meaning ‘sky’ and ‘day’ and probably comes ultimately from a base with the sense ‘bright, shining’. Amongst its other descendants are English divine, the personifications Greek Zeus, Latin Iuppiter and Iovis (source of English jovial), and Old English Tīw (source of English Tuesday), and Sanskrit dēvás ‘god’ (source of English deodar ‘variety of cedar’ [19], literally ‘divine wood’); the superficially similar Greek theós ‘god’, however, is not related.

English is also indebted to Latin deus for deify [14] and, via a somewhat circuitous route, the joss [18] of joss-stick, a Pidgin English word which comes from deos, the Portuguese descendant of deus.
=> divine, joss, jovial, tuesday

deity (n.)

c. 1300, "divine nature;" late 14c., "a god," from Old French deité, from Late Latin deitatem (nominative deitas) "divine nature," coined by Augustine from Latin deus "god," from PIE *deiwos (see Zeus).

1. The cross-legged deity exudes wisdom and composure.

あぐらをかいて座る神像は知恵と静けさを漂わせている。

2.Many animals were seen as the manifestation of a deity .

多くの動物が神の化身と見なされている。

3.He is worshipped as deity .

彼は神として敬われている。

4.The Hebrew propets developed the concept of one God,a national deity .

ヘブライの預言者たちは徐々に一神論を発展させてきた。この神は全民族の神である。

5.There is a sense of personal attachment between this image of the deity and the family.

神像と家族の間には親しみやすい愛着がある。