Ancient Greek

Adjective

δεισιδαίμων • ‎(deisidaímōn)

1. superstitious
2. (Koine) god-fearing: pious or superstitious.
   • 80-90 CE, Edwin Palmer, quoting Greek New Testament: Acts of the Apostles, Parallel New Testament Greek and English, University Press, translation of Πράξεις τῶν Ἀποστόλων, published 1887, 17:22, page 581:

     Σταθεὶς δὲ [ὁ] Παῦλος ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ Ἀρείου Πάγου ἔφη, Ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, κατὰ πάντα ὡς δεισιδαιμονεστέρους ὑμᾶς θεωρῶ:

     Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. (Translation notes on page 1090 state: 'For "somewhat superstitious" read "too religious".')

References

• δεισιδαίμων in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• δεισιδαίμων in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «δεισιδαίμων» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «δεισιδαίμων» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G1174”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979

Greek

Adjective

δεισιδαίμων • ‎(deisidaímon) m ‎(feminine δεισιδαίμων, neuter δεισιδαίμον)

1. superstitious

Declension

Synonyms

• προληπτικός ‎(proliptikós)