demigod

Etymology

demi- + god. Calque of the Latin semideus (“half-god”), which is probably a coining by the Roman poet Ovid for less important gods such as dryads.

noun

1. A half-god or hero; the offspring of a deity and a mortal.
2. Someone held up for reverence as a supreme example.
   He finds, not “demigods” but “ a combative group of exhausted, drunken, broken, petty, partisan, scheming, squabbling, bloviating, sensory-deprived, underoxygenated, fed-up, talked-out, overheated delegates so distraught they threatened violence, secession. 2013, The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy