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語源

From the syntax of environment variables in Unix shells, and the practice of putting paths to user's software of choice in generically named variables like EDITOR or PAGER.

発音

• same as deity, or as dollar sign deity (see the respective entries)

名詞

$DEITY (plural $DEITIES)

1. (Internet slang, humorous) A generic deity; the listener's or reader's god of choice.
   • 2000, Justin Warren, “Re: newbie learns an arcane command”, in alt.sysadmin.recovery‎ (Usenet):

     No real init that actually works the way it's supposed to. No snoop. No truss/strace. The whole stupid application install method with it's /opt /etc/opt/, /var/opt, /tmp/var/etc/opt $DEITY dammit!

   • 2000, 2:1, “Re: Malloy digest”, in comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy‎ (Usenet):

     For $DEITY's sake, stop `digesting' each other and advocate something useful!

   • 2015 March 30, Daniel James, “Re: [anti-topic] rant, idiots should probably avoid”, in comp.mobile.android‎ (Usenet):

     Thank $DEITIES for Open Source!

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:$DEITY.

使用する際の注意点

Often substitutes for god/God in set phrases like thank God or for God's sake.

参照

Further reading

• Jargon File, Chapter 5. Hacker Writing Style

別の表記

• deitie (obsolete)

語源

From Middle French deité, from Latin deitās.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈdiː.ɪ.ti/, /ˈdeɪ.ɪ.ti/, [ˈdeɪ̯-]
• (General American) IPA: /ˈdi.ə.ti/, [ˈdi.ə.ɾi], /ˈdeɪ.ə.ti/, [ˈdeɪ̯.ə.ɾi]
• (Indic) IPA: /ˈɖɛj(ɪ)ʈi/
• (Canada) IPA: [ˈdeː.ɪɾi], [ˈdiː-], [-tɪ]
• (General Australian) IPA: [ˈdɪjɪɾɪj], [ˈdæjɪɾɪj], [-tɪj]
• ハイフネーション: de‧i‧ty

名詞

deity (countable and uncountable, plural deities)

1. Synonym of divinity: the state, position, or fact of being a god. [from 14th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 4:

     Thou seest all, yet none at all sees thee: / All that is by the working of thy Deitee.

2. A supernatural divine being; a god or goddess. [from 14th c.]
   • 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 15:

     The fact that in most lands the moon was originally a female deity has led many historians to dispute the superiority of the moon over the sun in ancient mythology.

   • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 209:

     Every act of a Roman, from birth to death, from dawn to night, was controlled and supervised by some presiding deity.

   • 2000, Kenneth Seeskin, Searching for a Distant God: The Legacy of Maimonides, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 23:

     The crux of monotheism is not only belief in a single deity but belief in a deity who is different from everything else.

同意語

• (a god): See Thesaurus:god

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アナグラム

• Tidey, etyid