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mephistopheles

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Name — The Devil to whom Faust sold his soul in the legend.

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Of uncertain origin. More information The two-time occurrence of -ph- which is the Roman transliteration for Ancient Greek φ and of the termination -es which transliterates Ancient Greek -ης as in Aristoteles (Ἀριστοτέλης) along with the resemblance -phel-/-phil- bears to φιλεῖν (phileîn, “to love”) has led many to bel...

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