dominus

See also: Dominus

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin dominus (“master”). See dame.

Noun

dominus (plural domini)

1. master; sir; a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doˈminus/

Verb

dominus

1. conditional of domini

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Latin

Etymology

domus (“house”) +‎ -inus (forming masculine nouns describing owners or residents)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.mi.nus/

• Audio (Classical)

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Noun

dominus m (genitive dominī); second declension

1. The owner of a residence, the master of its servants and slaves
2. Any lord with similar authority over others

Declension

Second declension.

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	dominus	dominī
genitive	dominī	dominōrum
dative	dominō	dominīs
accusative	dominum	dominōs
ablative	dominō	dominīs
vocative	domine	dominī

Derived terms

Derived terms

• domicellus

• domina

• domināns

• dominanter

• dominātiō

• dominātor

• dominātrīx

• dominātus

• dominellus

• dominicus

• dominiōnus

• dominium

• dominius

• dominor

• Dominus

• dominus patriae

• dominus plebis

• dominus terrae

Descendants

• Aromanian: domnu
• Basque: done
• Dutch: dominee
• English: domino
• French: dom

• Italian: domino, don, donno
• Old French: dam
• Portuguese: Dom, dono
• Romanian: domn
• Spanish: Don, don, dueño

Synonyms

• erus

References

• dŏmĭnus in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
• “dŏmĭnus” on page 555 of Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• “dominus” on page 571 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• “dominus” on pages 353–4 of Jan Frederik Niermeyer’s Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (1976)