domicile

English

Alternative forms

• domicil (archaic)

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French domicile, borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin domicilium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɑmɪsaɪl/, /ˈdɑmɪsɪl/

Noun

domicile (plural domiciles)

1. (formal) A home or residence.

   The call to jury duty was sent to my legal domicile; too bad I was on vacation at the time.

2. (law) A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wharton to this entry?)

Related terms

• domiciled
• domiciliary

Translations

home or residence

• Bulgarian: резиде́нция (bg) f (rezidéncija), местожи́телство (bg) n (mestožítelstvo)
• Catalan: domicili (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 住所 (zh) (zhùsuǒ), 住宅 (zh) (zhùzhái)

• Finnish: kotipaikka (fi), kotiosoite (fi), asunto (fi)
• French: domicile (fr) m
• German: Domizil (de) n
• Greek: κατοικία (el) f (katoikía)
• Indonesian: domisili (id), tempat tinggal (id)
• Italian: domicilio (it) m
• Japanese: 住所 (ja) (じゅうしょ, jūsho), 住居 (ja) (すまい, sumai, じゅうきょ, jūkyo), 住宅 (ja) (じゅうたく, jūtaku)
• Latin: domicilium (la) n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Macedonian: живеалиште n (živealište)
• Maori: tūrangawaewae
• Persian: کده (fa) (kade)
• Polish: domicyl m
• Portuguese: domicílio (pt) m
• Romanian: domiciliu (ro) n
• Russian: ме́сто жи́тельства n (mésto žítelʹstva), местожи́тельство (ru) n (mestožítelʹstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: станиште n, боравиште n

  Roman: stanište (sh) n, boravište (sh) n

• Spanish: domicilio (es) m
• Thai: ภูมิลำเนา (th) (puum-lam-nao)

a residence accepted as a final abode

• Finnish: asuminen (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Thai: ภูมิลำเนา (th) (puum-lam-nao)

Verb

domicile (third-person singular simple present domiciles, present participle domiciling, simple past and past participle domiciled)

1. To have a domicile in a particular place.

   The answer depends on in which state he was domiciled at his death.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin domicilium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔ.mi.sil/

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Noun

domicile m (plural domiciles)

1. domicile

Further reading

• “domicile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.