deity

UK/ˈdiː.ɪ.ti/US/ˈdi.ə.ti/

nounC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,273 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: deities

A deity is a god or goddess. A local deity, the supreme deity, worship a deity.

It is the neutral academic word, used where god would carry too much of one tradition with it, so a scholar writes about the deity of a river or a household. The plural is deities. It comes from the Latin for a god, which also gave divine.

Definitions of deity

1noundeityA god or goddess.C1
“The ancient Egyptians worshipped a sun deity called Ra.”

deity is a god.

Where it comes from

Latin deitas comes from deus, a god. Divine, deify and the name Jupiter are relatives.

Proto-Indo-European
*dyew-
Latin
deitās
Middle French
deité
English, today
deity

From Middle French deité, from Latin deitās.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Belief & Ritual

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deity in the wild

Although there is no clear consensus regarding the geographic origins of the deity, most modern scholars favor a southern origin hypothesis.
Yahweh
The worship of the deity goes back to at least the early Iron Age and apparently to the late Bronze Age.
Yahweh
Originally a Canaanite deity known as 'El, 'Al or 'Il was the supreme god of the ancient Canaanite religion.
El (deity)
In late Greek and Roman religion, one type of tutelary deity, the genius, functions as the personal deity or daimon of an individual from birth to death.
Tutelary deity
Atheism rejects the belief in God or any other deity.
God

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