dominical

English

Etymology

From Late Latin dominicālis (“of or pertaining to Sunday”), from Ecclesiastical Latin diēs Dominicus (“day of the Lord”) + -ālis, from Dominus (“the Lord”), as a translation of titles of the God of the Hebrew Tanakh and Greek New Testament) + -icus (“forming adjectives”).

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: do‧mi‧ni‧cal

Adjective

dominical (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to Jesus Christ as Lord.
  2. (rare) Pertaining to the Lord's Day, Sunday.
  3. (historical) Pertaining to the dominical letter, an ancient system for determining Sundays (particularly Easter Sunday) in any given year.

Translations

Noun

dominical (plural dominicals)

  1. (obsolete) Sunday.
  2. (obsolete) The Lord's Prayer.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 dominical in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

See also
  • κυριακῇ ἡμέρᾳ (kuriakêi hēmérāi, “(adjective + noun) dominical day or Lord’s day”) (from Rev 1:10)
  • κυριακή (kuriakḗ, “dominical or Lord’s”), ἡμέρα (hēméra, “day”)

Anagrams

Catalan

Adjective

dominical (masculine and feminine plural dominicals)

  1. dominical

French

Etymology

Latin Dominus (“the Lord”)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dɔminikal/
  • Audio(file)

Adjective

dominical (feminine singular dominicale, masculine plural dominicaux, feminine plural dominicales)

  1. (attributive) Sunday
  2. from the Lord (i.e. Jesus Christ)

Further reading

Spanish

Adjective

dominical (plural dominicales)

  1. dominical (of or pertaining to Sunday)
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