dominus
See also: Dominus
English
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Latin
Etymology
- 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/, [ˈdɔ.mɪ.nʊs]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈdo.mi.nus/, [ˈdoː.mi.nus]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Noun
dominus m (genitive dominī); second declension
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 |
Synonyms
Derived terms
- domicellus
- domina
- domināns
- dominanter
- dominātiō
- dominātor
- dominātrīx
- dominātus
- dominellus
- dominicus
- dominiōnus
- dominium
- dominius
- dominor
- Dominus
- dominus patriae
- dominus plebis
- dominus terrae
Descendants
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, 1883–1887)
- dŏmĭnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 555
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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: Brill, pages 353–4
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