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dominus

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See also: Dominus

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin dominus (master). Doublet of dan, dom, domine, dominie, and don.

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Noun

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dominus (plural domini)

  1. (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.

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Verb

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dominus

  1. conditional of domini

Latin

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Etymology

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The original identity of the second vowel of this word is unclear:

In either case, likely further related to domus, from Proto-Italic *domos, from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (to build).[1][2][3]

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Noun

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dominus m (genitive dominī, feminine domina); second declension

  1. master, possessor, ruler, lord, proprietor
    Synonyms: erus, domnus, arbiter
  2. owner of a residence; master of his servants and slaves
  3. master of a feast, entertainer, host
  4. master of a play or of public games, employer of players or gladiators
  5. sir (a greeting, in the vocative case)

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative dominus dominī
genitive dominī dominōrum
dative dominō dominīs
accusative dominum dominōs
ablative dominō dominīs
vocative domine dominī

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References

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  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ dominus” on page 571 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
  3. ^ 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

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  • 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)
  • 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