Deus ( , ) is the Latin word for "god" or "deity".Fact: date=April 2009 The Latin words deus and dīvus, and Greek διϝος = "divine", are descended from Proto-Indo-European *deiwos = "divine", from the same root as Dyēus, the reconstructed chief god of the Proto-Indo-European pantheon, also a cognate of the Greek Ζευς (Zeus).Fact: date=April 2009 By the era of Classical Latin it was a general noun referring to any number of divine figures. His real name is Eusébio.Fact: date=April 2009 The word continues to refer directly to God in the Portuguese language. It is also incorporated into a number of phrases and slogans. For example, nobiscum deus ("God with us") was a battle cry of the late Roman Empire and of the Byzantine Empire.Fact: date=April 2009 The name "Amadeus" prefixes a conjugation of Amo (love) to mean "for love of God".Fact: date=April 2009 But "Asmodeus" which looks to have a similar origin is from the name Asmodai which is believed to derive from Avestan language *aēšma-daēva, where aēšma means "wrath", and daēva signifies "demon".

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