# dominus
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dominus (“master”). Doublet of dan, dom, domine, dominie, and don.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdɒmɪnəs/

### 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 or an academic master
** January 1848, The New Sporting Magazine, volume 15, page 23:The vesper bell had rung its parting note; the domini were mostly caged in comfortable quarters, discussing the merits of old port; and the merry student had closed his oak, to consecrate the night to friendship, sack, and claret.

#### Derived terms

* dominicide

#### Related terms

* domina
* dominus vobiscum
* donzel

### Further reading

* Dominus (title) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

### Anagrams

* dimuons

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /doˈminus/

### Verb

dominus
* conditional of domini

## Latin
### Etymology

The original identity of the second vowel of this word is unclear:
* from Proto-Italic *dom-o/u-nos (“of the house”); both u- and o-stems are found in other branches;
* from Proto-Italic *domanos, from Proto-Indo-European *domHnos (“homeowner”), from *dṓm (“house”) + *-Hō (Hoffmann's suffix) via the oblique stem *-Hn-.
In either case, likely further related to domus, from Proto-Italic *domos, from Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“to build”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈdo.mi.nus/, [ˈd̪ɔmɪnʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈdo.mi.nus/, [ˈd̪ɔːminus]

### Noun

dominus m (genitive dominī, feminine domina); second declension
* master, possessor, ruler, lord, proprietor
    Synonyms: erus, domnus, arbiter
* owner of a residence; master of his servants and slaves
* master of a feast, entertainer, host
* master of a play or of public games, employer of players or gladiators
* sir (a greeting, in the vocative case)

#### Declension

Second-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* DN
* domicellus
* domina
* domināns
* dominanter
* dominātiō
* dominātor
* dominātrīx
* dominātus
* dominellus
* dominicus
* dominiōnus
* dominium
* dominius
* dominor
* Dominus
* dominus patriae
* dominus plebis
* dominus terrae
* domnus

#### Descendants

* ⇒ Late Latin: domnus
** Aragonese: dueño
** Aromanian: domnu
** Italian: donno
** Megleno-Romanian: domn
** Old Galician-Portuguese: dono
*** Galician: dono
*** Portuguese: dono
** Romanian: domn
** Sardinian: donnu
** Sicilian: donnu
** Spanish: dueño
* ⇒ Medieval Latin: dominō (from the dative, possibly from benedīcāmus Dominō)
** → Spanish: dominó
*** → Tagalog: dóminó
** → French: domino (see there for further descendants)
* → Basque: done
* Catalan: en, na
* → Dutch: dominee (from the vocative)
* → English: domine, dominie, dominus, don
* Italian: domino
* Old French: dam
* Portuguese: Dom
* → Spanish: dómine

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “dominus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 177
* ↑ “dominus” on page 571 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “domus, -ī / ūs”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 178-179

### Further reading

* “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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)
* “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
* Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “dominus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, pages 353–4