meaning of the word dauntless
The adjective dauntless is a variant of the noun daunt, which means to intimidate or cause fear.. Both words are related to another family of D words â dominate, domestic, domain. They all go back to the Latin root domare, which means to tame..
The history of the world is peopled with dauntless men and women who refused to be subdued or tamed by fear. The word dauntless can be traced back to Latin domare, meaning to tame or to subdue.. When our verb daunt (a domare descendant borrowed by way of Anglo-French) was first used in the 14th century, it shared these meanings.