domus

Borrowed from Latin dōmus.

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

• doums, modus

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.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.mus/, [ˈdɔ.mʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.mus/, [ˈdoː.mus]

domus f (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

     Deo domuique.

     For God and for home.

   • First part of the motto of Harrow School, England

     Stet fortuna domus.

     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

• 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.

Fourth declension with locative, some alternative forms from the second declension.

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

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

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

• 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, 1883–1887)
• domus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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

domus

1. predicative plural of dom