# dome
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French dome, domme (modern French dôme), from Italian duomo, from Latin domus (ecclesiae) (literally “house (of the church)”), a calque of Ancient Greek οἶκος τῆς ἐκκλησίας (oîkos tês ekklēsías). Doublet of domus and duomo.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: dōm, IPA: /dəʊm/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊm

### Noun

dome (plural domes)
* (architecture) A structural element resembling the hollow upper half of a sphere.
    Synonym: cupola
    geodesic dome
* (by extension) Anything shaped like an upset bowl, often used as a cover.
    a cake dome
    lava dome
** 2021 June 29, Gabrielle Canon, “Historic heatwave, extreme drought and wildfires plague North American west”, in The Guardian‎:The heatwave, caused by what meteorologists described as a dome of high pressure, extends from California up through areas in Canada’s Arctic territories and was worsened by the human-caused climate crisis.
* (informal) A person's head.
** 1962, Myles Rudge (lyrics and music), “Right Said Fred”:Was he in trouble, half a ton of rubble landed on the top of his dome.
** 2016, “Let’s Lurk”, Monkey (lyrics), performed by 67 ft Giggs:Trapping ain't dead, the nitty still clucking and ringing my phone Chilling with bro, talking ’bout money, dough to the dome
** 2005, “Georgia”, performed by Ludacris:I got five Georgia homes where I rest my Georgia bones, Come anywhere on my land and I'll aim at your Georgia dome.
* (slang) head, oral sex
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:oral sex
** 2005, “Georgia Dome”, performed by Ying Yang Twins:Put your mouth on a dick, give me Georgia Dome.
* (obsolete, poetic) A building; a house; an edifice.
    pleasure dome
** 1726, Alexander Pope, Odyssey:Approach the dome, the social banquet share.
* (by extension) Any erection resembling the dome or cupola of a building, such as the upper part of a furnace, the vertical steam chamber on the top of a boiler, etc.
    steam dome
* (crystallography) A prism formed by planes parallel to a lateral axis which meet above in a horizontal edge, like the roof of a house; also, one of the planes of such a form.
* (geology) A geological feature consisting of symmetrical anticlines that intersect where each one reaches its apex.
* (sewing) A press stud or snap fastener.

#### Derived terms

* airdome
* astrodome
* biodome
* bonedome
* brachydome
* cheese dome
* chrome dome
* chrome-dome
* Clingmans Dome
* clinodome
* cryptodome
* domal
* dome car
* domeless
* dome light
* domelike
* dome nut
* dome piece
* dome-shaped
* domeshaped
* domic
* domical
* domish
* domophobia
* domy
* double-dome
* doubledome
* endome
* enormodome
* geodesic dome
* geodome
* give dome
* heat dome
* hemidome
* interdome
* lava dome
* macrodome
* megadome
* minidome
* mud dome
* myodome
* Norton's dome
* off the dome
* off the top of one's dome
* onion dome
* orthodome
* pleasure dome
* radar dome
* radome
* rotodome
* salt dome
* sand dome
* semidome
* skydome
* snowdome
* soundome
* steam dome
* Thunderdome
* zome

#### Translations
### Verb

dome (third-person singular simple present domes, present participle doming, simple past and past participle domed)
* (transitive) To give a domed shape to.
** 1814, Leigh Hunt, “Ode for the Spring of 1814”, in The Descent of Liberty, a Mask, London: Printed for Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, […], published 1815, →OCLC, page lix:The green and laughing world he sees, / Waters, and plains, and waving trees, / The skim of birds, and the blue-doming skies, […]
** 1907, Joseph Barrell, Geology of the Marysville Mining District, Montana, page 24:[…] the general effect being to dome the cover upward at least 1,000 and probably 2,000 feet, and to metamorphose the limy sediments into hornstones […]
* (transitive, colloquial, slang) To shoot in the head.
    That guy just got domed!
** 2014, “Talk Shit, Get Shot”, in Ice-T (lyrics), Ernie C, Ice-T, Vincent Price, Will Putney (music), Manslaughter, performed by Body Count:You can get hit with the fifth / Twisted with the biscuit / Blasted with the ratchet / Jacked with the MAC / Bodied with the shotty / Dumped with the pump / Rocked with the Glock / Sprayed with the 'K / Domed with the chrome
* (transitive, US, African-American Vernacular, colloquial, slang) To perform fellatio on.

### Further reading

* dome on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* E.D. Mo., Edom, Medo-, demo, demo-, mode

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈdomɛ]

### Noun

dome
* vocative singular of dům

## Latvian
### Etymology

A late 19th-century borrowing from Russian ду́ма (dúma, “administrative institution”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [dūōmɛ]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

dome f (5th declension)
* (often plural) council (legislative or administrative organ)
    pilsētas dome, domes ― city council
    domes vēlēšanas ― city council elections
    Valsts Dome(s) ― State Duma (Russian Legislative Body)

#### Derived terms

* padome

### References

* ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “doma”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca‎ (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

## Middle English
### Noun

dome
* Alternative form of doom

## Nias
### Noun

dome
* mutated form of tome (“guest”)

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdoː.me/

### Noun

dōme
* dative singular of dōm

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈdõ.mi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈdõ.mi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈdo.me/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈdɔ.mɨ/
* Hyphenation: do‧me

### Verb

dome
* inflection of domar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

dome (Cyrillic spelling доме)
* vocative singular of dom

## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈdɔme]

### Noun

dome
* locative singular of dom

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdome/ [ˈd̪o.me]
* Rhymes: -ome
* Syllabification: do‧me

### Verb

dome
* inflection of domar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Volapük
### Noun

dome
* dative singular of dom