demigod

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Blend of Russian Демидов (Demidov) + demigod.

From demi- + god. Calque of the Latin semideus (“half-god”), which is probably a coining by the Roman poet Ovid for less important gods such as dryads.

70 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: نِصْف إِلٰه (niṣf ʔilāh) — a half-god or hero
• Armenian: կիսաստված (kisastvac) — a half-god or hero
• Armenian: դյուցազն (dyucʻazn) — a half-god or hero
• Belarusian: паўбо́г (pawbóh) — a half-god or hero
• Bulgarian: полубо́г (polubóg) — a half-god or hero
• Catalan: semidéu — a half-god or hero
• Catalan: semideessa — a half-god or hero
• Chinese Mandarin: 半神半人 (bànshénbànrén) — a half-god or hero
• Chinese Mandarin: 半神 (bànshén) — a half-god or hero
• Czech: polobůh — a half-god or hero
• Danish: halvgud — a half-god or hero
• Dutch: halfgod — a half-god or hero
• Esperanto: duondio — a half-god or hero
• Estonian: pooljumal — a half-god or hero
• Finnish: puolijumala — a half-god or hero
• French: demi-dieu — a half-god or hero
• Galician: semideus — a half-god or hero
• German: Halbgott — a half-god or hero
• Greek: ημίθεος (imítheos) — a half-god or hero
• Greek: ήρωας (íroas) — a half-god or hero
• Ancient Greek: ἡμίθεος (hēmítheos) — a half-god or hero
• Hungarian: félisten — a half-god or hero
• Ido: mideo — a half-god or hero
• Indonesian: setengah dewa — a half-god or hero
• Italian: semidio — a half-god or hero
• Japanese: 半神 (hanshin) — a half-god or hero
• Kazakh: жартылай құдай (jartylai qūdai) — a half-god or hero
• Korean: 반신반인 (bansinbanin) — a half-god or hero
• Korean: 반신 (bansin) — a half-god or hero
• Latin: sēmideus — a half-god or hero
• Macedonian: полубог (polubog) — a half-god or hero
• Norwegian Bokmål: halvgud — a half-god or hero
• Norwegian Nynorsk: halvgud — a half-god or hero
• Persian: نیمایزد (nim-izad) — a half-god or hero
• Persian: نیمخدا (nimxodâ) — a half-god or hero
• Polish: półbóg — a half-god or hero
• Portuguese: semideus — a half-god or hero
• Romanian: semizeu — a half-god or hero
• Russian: полубо́г (polubóx) — a half-god or hero
• Serbo-Croatian: по̏лубо̄г — a half-god or hero
• Serbo-Croatian: pȍlubōg — a half-god or hero
• Slovak: poloboh — a half-god or hero
• Slovene: polbog — a half-god or hero
• Spanish: semidiós — a half-god or hero
• Swahili: nusumungu — a half-god or hero
• Swedish: halvgud — a half-god or hero
• Turkish: yarıtanrı — a half-god or hero
• Ukrainian: напівбо́г (napivbóh) — a half-god or hero
• Vietnamese: á thần — a half-god or hero
• Vietnamese: bán thần — a half-god or hero
• Volapük: lafagod — a half-god or hero
• Catalan: semidéu — a lesser deity
• Catalan: semideessa — a lesser deity
• Chinese Mandarin: 次神 (cìshén) — a lesser deity
• Danish: halvgud — a lesser deity
• Dutch: lagere godheid — a lesser deity
• Finnish: puolijumala — a lesser deity
• German: Halbgott — a lesser deity
• Greek: ημίθεος (imítheos) — a lesser deity
• Hungarian: félisten — a lesser deity
• Italian: semidio — a lesser deity
• Macedonian: полубожество (polubožestvo) — a lesser deity
• Norwegian Bokmål: halvgud — a lesser deity
• Norwegian Nynorsk: halvgud — a lesser deity
• Polish: bóstwo — a lesser deity
• Portuguese: semideus — a lesser deity
• Russian: божество́ (božestvó) — a lesser deity
• Russian: полубо́г (polubóx) — a lesser deity
• Russian: божо́к (božók) — a lesser deity
• Swahili: nusumungu — a lesser deity