domicilium

Latin

Etymology

• From domus (“home, house”) + Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”).
• Or from domus (“home, house”) + colō (“inhabit, dwell”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /do.miˈki.li.um/, [d̪ɔmɪˈkɪlʲiʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /do.miˈt͡ʃi.li.um/, [d̪omiˈt͡ʃiːlium]

Noun

domicilium n (genitive domiciliī or domicilī); second declension

1. A habitation, dwelling, domicile, abode, home.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	domicilium	domicilia
Genitive	domiciliī domicilī1	domiciliōrum
Dative	domiciliō	domiciliīs
Accusative	domicilium	domicilia
Ablative	domiciliō	domiciliīs
Vocative	domicilium	domicilia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

Related terms

• domesticātim
• domesticātus
• domesticus
• domicēnium

• domicūrius
• domiporta
• domiseda
• domitius

• domucula
• domuitiō
• domuncula
• domus

Descendants

• Catalan: domicili
• English: domicile
• French: domicile
• German: Domizil
• Italian: domicilio

• Polish: domicyl
• Portuguese: domicílio
• Romanian: domiciliu
• Spanish: domicilio

References

• “domicilium”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• “domicilium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• domicilium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• domicilium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to dwell in a certain place: domicilium (sedem ac domicilium) habere in aliquo loco
    
  • to take up one's abode in a place, settle down somewhere: sedem ac domicilium (fortunas suas) constituere alicubi
    
• “domicilium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “domicilium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin