domus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin domus.

Noun

domus

1. (anthropology, archaeology) A farmstead with its people, plants and animals, considered as a unit.
   • 2017, James C Scott, chapter 2, in Against the Grain, New Haven and London: Yale University, →ISBN, page 73:

     The domus was a unique and unprecedented concentration of tilled fields, seed and graain stores, people, and domestic animals, all coevolving with consequences no one could possibly have foreseen.

2. (dated) In the UK a college (or collectively its fellows) in Cambridge or Oxford

Anagrams

• doums, modus

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Latin

Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *domos, from Proto-Indo-European *dṓm (“house, home”), from root *dem- (“to build”). Cognates include Ancient Greek δόμος (dómos), Albanian dhomë (“a chamber, a room”), Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬛 (dam-) Sanskrit दम (dáma) and Proto-Slavic *domъ. The same Proto-Indo-European root also gave Old English timber (“building, act of building”); see modern English timber.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.mus/, [ˈd̪ɔmʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.mus/, [ˈd̪ɔːmus]

Noun

domus f (irregular, variously declined, genitive domūs or domī); fourth declension, second declension

1. house, home

   Synonyms: aedēs, casa, domicilium, habitātiō, mānsiō, sēdēs, tēctum

   Hypernyms: aedificium, cōnstructiō

   Hyponyms: domuncula, tugurium

   • Motto of Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne

     Deō domuīque.

     For God and for home.

   • First part of the motto of Harrow School, England

     Stet fortūna domūs.

     Let the fortune of the house stand.

2. (poetic) any building or abode

   Synonyms: aedificium, cōnstructiō

3. native place, one's country or home (confer patria)
4. household, family, race

Usage notes

• Domus is one of a handful of common nouns that take the locative case; others are rus and humus. It is irregular in that it has a mix of second and fourth declension forms, the second declension forms being more commonly used in place constructions.

Declension

Fourth/second-declension noun, with locative.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	domus	domūs
Genitive	domūs domī	domuum domōrum
Dative	domuī domō domū	domibus
Accusative	domum	domūs domōs
Ablative	domū domō	domibus
Vocative	domus	domūs
Locative	domī	domibus

• At least in later Latin, the most common declension is as follows:

domus, domus, domui, domum, domo — domus, domorum, domibus, domos, domibus.

Derived terms

• dominus
• domesticus
• domuitiō
• domuncula
• domus equestris
• domī (“at home, in the house”, adverbial form)
• domī habeō (“I have at home, I have in abundance, I am provided with”, colloquial)
• domum (“home, homewards, to the house”, adverbial form)
• domō (“from home, out of the house; at home, in the house”, adverbial form)
• extrā domum (“placed outside of the house; refers to a possible result of Catholic ecclesiastical legal proceedings when the culprit is removed from being part of a group like a monastery”)
• prō domō (“for one’s own home or house; serving the interests of a given perspective or for the benefit of a given group”)

Descendants

• Italian: duomo
  • French: dôme
    • German: Dom
      • Polish: tum
• Piedmontese: dòm/dom
• Sardinian: domu, dommu
• Sicilian: domu
• Swedish: dom

See also

• aedēs
• aedificium
• casa
• domicilium
• habitātiō
• mansiō
• mōlēs
• sēdēs
• tēctum
• tugurium

References

• “domus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “domus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• domus 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)
• domus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a comfortably-furnished house: domus necessariis rebus instructa
    
  • the house threatens to fall in (vid. sect. X. 5, note 'Threaten'...): domus ruina impendet
    
  • the house threatens to fall in (vid. sect. X. 5, note 'Threaten'...): domus collapsura, corruitura (esse) videtur
    
  • the house suddenly fell in ruins: domus subita ruina collapsa est
    
  • to demolish, raze a house: domum demoliri (Top. 4. 22)
    
  • the house is not large enough for all: domus non omnes capit (χωρειν)
    
  • to be a regular visitor at a house: domum frequentare (Sall. Cat. 14. 7)
    
  • the house walls are beginning to crack: domus rimas agit
    
  • (ambiguous) to welcome to one's house (opp. to shut one's door against some one): tecto, (in) domum suam aliquem recipere (opp. prohibere aliquem tecto, domo)
    
  • to welcome a man as a guest in one's house: hospitio aliquem accipere or excipere (domum ad se)
    
  • I am always welcome at his house: domus patet, aperta est mihi
    
  • (ambiguous) to invite some one to one's house: invitare aliquem tecto ac domo or domum suam (Liv. 3. 14. 5)
    
  • to give, undertake a contract for building a house: domum aedificandam locare, conducere
    
  • (ambiguous) to rush out of the house: se proripere ex domo
    
  • (ambiguous) I felt quite at home in his house: apud eum sic fui tamquam domi meae (Fam. 13. 69)
    
  • (ambiguous) to welcome to one's house (opp. to shut one's door against some one): tecto, (in) domum suam aliquem recipere (opp. prohibere aliquem tecto, domo)
    
  • (ambiguous) to never set foot out of doors: domo pedem non efferre
    
  • (ambiguous) to never appear in public: domi se tenere
    
  • (ambiguous) to escort a person from his house: deducere aliquem de domo
    
  • (ambiguous) at home; in one's native country: domi (opp. foris)
    
  • (ambiguous) to turn a person out of his house, his property: expellere aliquem domo, possessionibus pellere
    
  • (ambiguous) to live in some one's house: habitare in domo alicuius, apud aliquem (Acad. 2. 36. 115)
    
  • (ambiguous) to emigrate: domo emigrare (B. G. 1. 31)
    
  • (ambiguous) homeless: domo profugus (Liv. 1. 1)
    
  • (ambiguous) to invite some one to one's house: invitare aliquem tecto ac domo or domum suam (Liv. 3. 14. 5)
    
• “domus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “domus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Volapük

Noun

domus

1. predicative plural of dom