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).
中文解释
Deity：第一体。最高的生命体----神，神性。
实用例句
1. The cross-legged deity exudes wisdom and composure.
盘腿而坐的神像散发出智慧与沉静的气息。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Many animals were seen as the manifestation of a deity.
许多动物被看作神的化身.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. He is worshipped as deity.
他被敬若神明.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
4. The Hebrew prophets developed the concept of one God, a national deity.
希伯来的先知们逐渐发展了一神论, 这个神是全民族的神.
来自辞典例句
5. There is a sense of personal attachment between this image of the deity and the family.
