dominus
See also: Dominus
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dominus (“master”). See dame.
Noun
dominus (plural domini)
- master; sir; a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cowell to this entry?)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dominus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Verb
dominus
- conditional of domini
Latin
Etymology
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- Either from Proto-Italic *domanos, from Proto-Indo-European *domh₂nos (“subduing”), from *demh₂- (“to tame, subdue”), whence domō,
- or a direct derivation from domus (“house”), itself derived from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“to build”): domus (“a house, a home”) + -īnus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdo.mi.nus/, [ˈd̪ɔmɪnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈdo.mi.nus/, [ˈd̪ɔːminus]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Noun
dominus m (genitive dominī); second declension
- a master, possessor, ruler, lord, proprietor
- an owner of a residence; the master of its servants and slaves
- the master of a feast, the entertainer, host
- the master of a play or of public games, the employer of players or gladiators
- sir (greeting)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | 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
- “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
- “dominus” on page 571 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “dominus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, pages 353–4
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