dominus
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See also: Dominus
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin dominus (“master”). Doublet of dan, dom, domine, dominie, and don.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]dominus (plural domini)
- (historical) master; sir; a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor, castle or an academic master
- January 1848, The New Sporting Magazine, volume 15, page 23:
- The vesper bell had rung its parting note; the domini were mostly caged in comfortable quarters, discussing the merits of old port; and the merry student had closed his oak, to consecrate the night to friendship, sack, and claret.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “dominus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Further reading
[edit]Dominus (title) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
[edit]Esperanto
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]dominus
- conditional of domini
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]The original identity of the second vowel of this word is unclear:
- from Proto-Italic *dom-o/u-nos (“of the house”); both u- and o-stems are found in other branches;
- from Proto-Italic *domanos, from Proto-Indo-European *domHnos (“homeowner”), from *dṓm (“house”) + *-Hō (Hoffmann's suffix) via the oblique stem *-Hn-.
In either case, likely further related to domus, from Proto-Italic *domos, from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“to build”).[1][2][3]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈdɔ.mɪ.nʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈd̪ɔː.mi.nus]
Noun
[edit]dominus m (genitive dominī, feminine domina); second declension
- master, possessor, ruler, lord, proprietor
- owner of a residence; master of his servants and slaves
- master of a feast, entertainer, host
- master of a play or of public games, employer of players or gladiators
- sir (a greeting, in the vocative case)
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | dominus | dominī |
genitive | dominī | dominōrum |
dative | dominō | dominīs |
accusative | dominum | dominōs |
ablative | dominō | dominīs |
vocative | domine | dominī |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “dominus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 177
- ^ “dominus” on page 571 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “domus, -ī / ūs”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 178-179
Further reading
[edit]- “dominus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dominus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "dominus", 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)
- dŏmĭnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 555.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the manager: dominus gregis
- to examine slaves by torture: de servis quaerere (in dominum)
- the manager: dominus gregis
- “dominus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “dominus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “dominus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, pages 353–4
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