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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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. an owner of a residence; the master of its servants and slaves
2. a lord

Declension

Second declension.

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

Derived terms

Terms derived from dominus

• 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
• Catalan: don, donzell
• Dutch: dominee
• English: domino, don, donzel
• French: dom, damoiseau

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

Synonyms

• erus

References

• dŏmĭnus in Charlton T. Lewis & 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, 1883–1887)
• dŏmĭnus on page 555 of Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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
• “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)