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is a calque of the Latin word semideus, "half-god". The Roman poet Ovid probably coined to refer to less-important gods, such as dryads.Compare the Greek . The term "demigod" first appeared in English in the late-sixteenth or early-seventeenth century, when it was used to render the Greek and Roman concepts of semideus

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