# domus
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin domus. Doublet of dome and duomo.

### Noun

domus (plural domus)
* (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.
* (dated) In the UK a college (or collectively its fellows) in Cambridge or Oxford.

### See also

* domus de janas

### Anagrams

* Odums, doums, odums, modus

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* demus (uncertain)

### Etymology

For 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 𐬛𐬀𐬨- (dam-) Sanskrit दम (dáma), Proto-Slavic *domъ and further to English timber. At least indirectly cognate to Latin dominus.
The feminine gender is probably due to the original root noun; attempts to transfer it to the 4th declension are due to 2nd declension feminines being unusual outside of tree names. Some manuscripts of Plautus show forms in dem-; De Vaan (2008) doubts their authenticity.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈdo.mus/, [ˈd̪ɔmʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈdo.mus/, [ˈd̪ɔːmus]

### Noun

domus f (irregular, variously declined, genitive domūs or domī); fourth declension, second declension
* house, home (the building where a person lives)
    Hypernyms: aedificium, aedēs
    Hyponyms: casa, domuncula, tugurium, gurgustium
    Deō domuīque ― For God and for home (motto of Methodist Ladies' College, Melbourne)
    Stet fortūna domūs ― Let the good fortune of the house stand (motto of Harrow School, England)
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.792:nox erat et tōta lūmina nūlla domōIt was night, and [there were] no lights in the whole house.
** a townhouse
* any dwelling-place or abode (of people or animals)
    Synonyms: domicilium, habitāculum, habitātiō, tēctum, mānsiō, sēdēs, aedēs
* the place of one's birth or residence, native country, town
    Hypernym: patria
** (also of the shell of invertebrates, tombs of the dead)
* household, family (the dependants of the head of a house)
** a group of disciples, school; an intellectual movement
** (monarchy) house, dynasty
* (idiomatic) one's own possessions or resources
    domum trahere ― to drag into one's pocket
    Domī versūra fit. ― One is one's own creditor. (proverb)
    domō afferre ― to conceive on one's own
** c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Amphitryon 637:id nunc experior domōNow I'm learning this first-hand.
* (in locative case in phrases, idiomatic) peace
    bellī domīque; bellō domīque; vel bellī vel domī; domī bellōque; domī mīlitiaeque ― in war and peace
** 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 1.38:ut non quietior populus domi esset quam militiaeso that the people should not become lazier in the time of peace than that of war

#### Usage notes

* This is one of a handful of common nouns that take the locative case; others are bellum, rūs and humus.
* It is irregular in that it has a mix of second and fourth declension forms, the second declension forms being more idiomatic. The classically most common declension is as follows:
       domus, domūs, domuī, domum, domō — domūs, domōrum, domibus, domōs, domibus.

#### Declension

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Fourth/second-declension noun, with locative.
Locative used in the sense "at home".

#### Derived terms

* domesticus
* domī (“at home, in the house”, adverbial form)
* domī habeō (“I have at home, I have in abundance, I am provided with”, colloquial)
* Domidūcus
* dominus
* domiporta
* domiseda
* domītus
* domō (“from home, out of the house; at home, in the house”, adverbial form)
* domuitiō
* domum (“home, homewards, to the house”, adverbial form)
* domuncula
* domus equestris
* extrā domum (“placed outside of the house; refers to a possible result of Catholic ecclesiastical legal proceedings when the culprit is removed from being part of a group like a monastery”)
* prō domō (“for one’s own home or house; serving the interests of a given perspective or for the benefit of a given group”)

#### Related terms

* domō
* domefactus

#### Descendants

* Italian: duomo, domo (“cathedral”)
** → Middle French: dome
*** French: dôme (“cathedral”)
**** →? Piedmontese: dòm, dom
**** →? Portuguese: domo
* Old French: dom (rare)
* Venetan: domo
* Sardinian: domu, domo, dommu
* Sicilian: domu
* → Proto-West Germanic: *dōm (see there for further descendants; some were later influenced by French)

### See also

* aedēs
* aedificium
* aedis
* casa
* domicilium
* habitātiō
* mānsiō
* mōlēs
* sēdēs
* tēctum
* tugurium

### References

* De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “domus, dominus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 177-179
* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “domus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 135
* Dizionario Latino, Olivetti

### Further reading

* “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* domus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 555.
* domus in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 2285
* 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

### Anagrams

* modus

## Volapük
### Noun

domus
* predicative plural of dom