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/, [d̪ɔ.mɪˈkɪ.lʲi.ʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /do.miˈt͡ʃi.li.um/, [d̪ɔ.miˈt͡ʃiː.li.um]

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. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, 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, 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