dieu, Dieu

le dieu, Dieu (FR N-M) God, the personified explanation for the existence of the world and of man and his life, particular to various cultures. With no article and a capital D, the God of the Judeo-Christian world; with the article, the supreme being as considered by the broader world in relation to the Judeo-Christian tradition. First appears in French in the ninth century spelled Deo, deu, dieu, from Latin deus, Sanskrit devas, div (brightness). (Anon., Apollinaire, Carême, Dominique…