# Dom
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /dɒm/
* (General American) IPA: /dɑm/
* (General Australian) IPA: /dɔm/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒm

### Etymology 1

Shortenings.

#### Proper noun

Dom
* A unisex given name, a form of Dominic or Dominique.
* (BDSM) Alternative letter-case form of dom

### Etymology 2

From Portuguese dom, and its source, Latin dominus.

#### Noun

Dom (plural Doms)
* A title given to royalty and high-ranking ecclesiastics in Portugal and Brazil.
* A title given to Roman Catholic monastic dignitaries.

### Etymology 3

From Hindi [Term?], from Sanskrit डोम (ḍoma).

#### Noun

Dom (plural Doms)
* A caste (or member of this caste) in Indian society, originally comprising drummers or travelling musicians and now generally referring to a Dalit subcaste responsible for the cremation and disposal of dead bodies.
** 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 2:Chand Ghat, where Dolly lives, is primarily a Dom neighbourhood, home to a small community of corpse-burners.

### Etymology 4

Related to Rom and Lom.

#### Proper noun

Dom
* An Indo-Aryan ethnic group, living mainly in the Middle East and North Africa.

### Anagrams

* MOD, MoD, ODM, mod, mod.

## German
### Alternative forms

* Thum (obsolete since early 19th c.)

### Etymology

15th-century alteration (see below) of older Thum, from Middle High German and Old High German tuom, from Proto-West Germanic *dōm (whence Old Dutch duom, Middle Low German dôm), from Medieval Latin domus (literally “house”). The use probably goes back to domus episcopatus/episcopalis (“house of the bishopric”). An alternative theory derives it from domus ecclesiae (“church house”), after Ancient Greek οἶκος τῆς ἐκκλησίας (oîkos tês ekklēsías).
The modern alteration Dom follows Middle French dome, from Italian duomo, from the Latin. It was probably reinforced by the inherited Middle Low German form (see above). Thum survived longest in the south. The Dutch cognate dom was similarly influenced by French.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /doːm/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -oːm

### Noun

Dom m (strong, genitive Doms or Domes, plural Dome)
* cathedral (church serving as seat of a bishop, by extension, any large church)

#### Declension

$^1$Now rare, see notes.

#### Derived terms

* Dombauhütte, Dombauverein
* Domkapitel
* Dompfaff

#### Related terms

* Domizil

### References

* ↑ „Dom“, in Pfeifer, Wolfgang et al.: Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (1993), digitalisierte Version im Digitalen Wörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache.
* ↑ Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “dom1”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands‎ (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
* ↑ Dom, Duden.
* ↑ Paul, Hermann: Deutsche Grammatik, vol. I, Halle a.S., 1916, p. 333, 335.
* ↑ Adelung, Johann Christoph: Grammatisch-Kritisches Wörterbuch der Hochdeutschen Mundart, vol. I, Leipzig, 1793, col. 1513.

### Further reading

* “Dom” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
* “Dom (Gesteinsstruktur, Kesselaufsatz)” in Duden online

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* dom

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈdõ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈdõ/
* Hyphenation: Dom

### Noun

Dom m (plural Dons)
* honorific title usually used before a man's name, equivalent to Spanish Don; it has historically been used by members of the high nobility in Portugal and Brazil
    Synonym: (abbreviation) D.
** 1930 January 3, “O novo abbade benedictino [The new Benedictine abbot]”, in Correio da Manhã‎, volume XXIX, number 10742, page 5:A comunidade benedictina reuniu-se hontem para eleger o novo abbade, na vaga de d. Ruperto Rudolf, fallecido em São Paulo. Foi eleito dom Placido Etaeb.The Benedictine community gathered yesterday to elect a new abbot, in place of Dom Ruperto Rudolf, who died in São Paulo. Dom Placido Etaeb was elected.

#### Related terms

* Dona f

## Saterland Frisian
### Etymology

From Old Frisian dam, from Proto-West Germanic *damm. Cognates include West Frisian dam and German Damm.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɔm/

### Noun

Dom m (plural Domme)
* dam

### References

* Marron C. Fort (2015) “Dom”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN