dominium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dominium

Noun

dominium (uncountable)

1. The ownership of a thing.

---

Latin

Noun

dominium n (genitive dominiī or dominī); second declension

1. feast, banquet
2. rule, dominion
3. ownership

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dominium	dominia
Genitive	dominiī dominī1	dominiōrum
Dative	dominiō	dominiīs
Accusative	dominium	dominia
Ablative	dominiō	dominiīs
Vocative	dominium	dominia

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

Descendants

• English: domain (possibly), dominion
• French: domaine (possibly)
• Italian: dominio
• Portuguese: domínio
• Spanish: dominio

References

• “dominium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dominium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dominium 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)
• dominium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “dominium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “dominium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin