dominate

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) From Latin dominātus, perfect active participle of dominor (“rule, have dominion”), from dominus (“lord, master”); see dominus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɒməˌneɪt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈdɑːməˌneɪt/

Verb

1. To govern, rule or control by superior authority or power

   Antonyms: obey, submit

2. To exert an overwhelming guiding influence over something or someone

   Antonyms: obey, submit

3. To enjoy a commanding position in some field
   • 2011 October 15, Michael Da Silva, “Wigan 1 - 3 Bolton”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Individual mistakes proved costly for Wigan who, particularly after the half-time introduction of Hugo Rodallega, dominated for long periods.

4. To overlook from a height.

Derived terms

• male-dominated

Related terms

• domain
• dominant
• domination
• dominator
• domineering
• dominion

 

Category English terms derived from the Dem root dominate- not found

Translations

to govern, rule or control by superior authority or power

• Arabic: سَيْطَرَ (sayṭara)
• Bulgarian: господствам (bg) (gospodstvam), преобладавам (bg) (preobladavam)
• Catalan: dominar (ca)
• Czech: dominovat
• Esperanto: domini (eo), superregi
• Finnish: vallita (fi)
• French: dominer (fr)
• Galician: dominar
• German: dominieren (de)
• Greek: δεσπόζω (el) (despózo)
• Ido: dominacar (io)
• Italian: dominare (it)
• Japanese: 治める (ja) (osameru), 統べる (suberu), 支配する (ja)
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• Korean: 지배하다 (ko) (jibaehada)
• Latin: dominor (la)
• Mirandese: adominar
• Polish: dominować (pl), przewyższać (pl)
• Portuguese: dominar (pt)
• Romanian: domina (ro)
• Russian: госпо́дствовать (ru) (gospódstvovatʹ), преоблада́ть (ru) (preobladátʹ), домини́ровать (ru) (dominírovatʹ)
• Slovene: vladati (sl)
• Spanish: dominar (es)
• Swedish: dominera (sv)
• Thai: ปกครอง (th) (bpòk-krɔɔng), ครอบงำ (th) (krɔ̂ɔp-ngam)
• Turkish: hükmetmek (tr)

to exert an overwhelming guiding influence over something or someone

• Galician: dominar
• Japanese: 支配する (ja)
• Korean: 우세하다 (usehada)
• Middle English: daunten
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• Polish: dominować (pl)
• Russian: домини́ровать (ru) (dominírovatʹ)
• Swedish: dominera (sv)
• Thai: ครอบงำ (th) (krɔ̂ɔp-ngam)

to enjoy a commanding position in some field

• Korean: 좌우하다 (jwauhada)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Swedish: dominera (sv)

to overlook from a height

• Italian: dominare (it)
• Korean: 내려다보다 (ko) (naeryeodaboda)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: dominować (pl)

Adjective

dominate (comparative more dominate, superlative most dominate)

1. Eggcorn of dominant.

Noun

dominate (countable and uncountable, plural dominates)

1. (historical) The late period of the Roman Empire, following the principate, during which the emperor's rule became more explicitly autocratic and remaining vestiges of the Roman Republic were removed from the formal workings of government; the reign of any particular emperor during this period.
   • 1973, Karl Loewenstein, The Governance of Rome, Martinus Nijhoff, page 238,

     During the Dominate this tendency was perfected to the point of dirigism in the modern sense, a state-directed society and state-controlled economy, obliterating, once again a prelude to modern times, the laissez-faire climate that had characterized the economic self-determination of the individual under the republic and the Principate.

   • 1996, Clare Krojzl (translator), Sebastian Hensel, III: From Diocletian to Alaric [1886, lecture notes], Theodor Mommsen (editor), A History of Rome Under the Emperors, C.H.Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Republished 2005, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), eBook, page 317,

     The dominate of Diocletian and Constantine differs more sharply from the principate than the latter does from the Republic.

   • 1997, Thomas Dunlap (translator), Herwig Wolfram, The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples, [1990, Das Reich und die Germanen], University of California Press, 2005, Paperback, page 55,

     Once someone had attained senatorial dignity by way of the successful tenure of some appropriate magistracy, one of the most important mechanisms of the dominate kicked in: all social rankings and professions were to a large extent heritable.

Usage notes

• The period begins 284 CE — the end of the Crisis of the Third Century and beginning of the reign of Diocletian, who instituted reforms.
  • In the west, it ends 476 CE, with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.
  • In the east, the end is taken either to be 565 CE (the end of Justinian I's reign) or 641 CE (the end of Heraclius' reign).

Coordinate terms

• principate

Translations

late period of the Roman Empire

• French: dominat m
• Italian: dominato (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: dominato m

See also

• tetrarchy

Further reading

• “dominate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “dominate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• diamonte, nematoid, ominated

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /domiˈnate/

Adverb

dominate

1. present adverbial passive participle of domini

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Italian

Verb

dominate

1. second-person plural present indicative of dominare
2. second-person plural imperative of dominare

Participle

dominate

1. feminine plural of the past participle of dominare

Anagrams

• dimenato
• indomate
• meditano
• menadito
• metadoni
• mondiate
• nematodi
• tendiamo

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) domināte

1. vocative masculine singular of dominātus