different between dominate vs oppression

English

Etymology

From Latin domin?tus, perfect active participle of dominor (“rule, have dominion”), from dominus (“lord, master”); see dominus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?m??ne?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d??m??ne?t/

Verb

dominate (third-person singular simple present dominates, present participle dominating, simple past and past participle dominated)

1. To govern, rule or control by superior authority or power

   Antonyms: obey, submit

2. To exert an overwhelming guiding influence over something or someone

   Antonyms: obey, submit

3. To enjoy a commanding position in some field
4. To overlook from a height.
5. (computing, graph theory) To precede another node of a directed graph in all paths from the start of the graph to the other node.

Derived terms

• male-dominated

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

dominate (comparative more dominate, superlative most dominate)

1. Eggcorn of dominant.

Noun

dominate (countable and uncountable, plural dominates)

1. (historical) The late period of the Roman Empire, following the principate, during which the emperor's rule became more explicitly autocratic and remaining vestiges of the Roman Republic were removed from the formal workings of government; the reign of any particular emperor during this period.
   • 1973, Karl Loewenstein, The Governance of Rome, Martinus Nijhoff, page 238,

     During the Dominate this tendency was perfected to the point of dirigism in the modern sense, a state-directed society and state-controlled economy, obliterating, once again a prelude to modern times, the laissez-faire climate that had characterized the economic self-determination of the individual under the republic and the Principate.

   • 1996, Clare Krojzl (translator), Sebastian Hensel, III: From Diocletian to Alaric [1886, lecture notes], Theodor Mommsen (editor), A History of Rome Under the Emperors, C.H.Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Republished 2005, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), eBook, page 317,

     The dominate of Diocletian and Constantine differs more sharply from the principate than the latter does from the Republic.

   • 1997, Thomas Dunlap (translator), Herwig Wolfram, The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples, [1990, Das Reich und die Germanen], University of California Press, 2005, Paperback, page 55,

     Once someone had attained senatorial dignity by way of the successful tenure of some appropriate magistracy, one of the most important mechanisms of the dominate kicked in: all social rankings and professions were to a large extent heritable.

Usage notes

• The period begins 284 CE — the end of the Crisis of the Third Century and beginning of the reign of Diocletian, who instituted reforms.
  • In the west, it ends 476 CE, with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.
  • In the east, the end is taken either to be 565 CE (the end of Justinian I's reign) or 641 CE (the end of Heraclius' reign).

Coordinate terms

• principate

Translations

See also

• tetrarchy

Further reading

• dominate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• dominate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• diamonte, nematoid, ominated

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /domi?nate/

Adverb

dominate

1. present adverbial passive participle of domini

Italian

Verb

dominate

1. second-person plural present indicative of dominare
2. second-person plural imperative of dominare

Participle

dominate

1. feminine plural of the past participle of dominare

Anagrams

• dimenato
• indomate
• meditano
• menadito
• metadoni
• mondiate
• nematodi
• tendiamo

Latin

Participle

domin?te

1. vocative masculine singular of domin?tus

English

Etymology

From Middle English oppression, from Old French oppression, from Latin oppressi? (“a pressing down, violence, oppression”), from opprim?; see oppress.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p????n/
• Rhymes: -???n
• Hyphenation: op?pres?sion

Noun

oppression (countable and uncountable, plural oppressions)

1. The exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner.

   • Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]

2. The act of oppressing, or the state of being oppressed.

3. A feeling of being oppressed.

Related terms

• oppress

Translations

Further reading

• oppression in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• oppression in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Latin oppressi?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.p??.sj??/

Noun

oppression f (plural oppressions)

1. oppression
2. (Louisiana) asthma

Further reading

• “oppression” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).