different between dominium vs dominion

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dominium

Noun

dominium (uncountable)

1. The ownership of a thing.
2. (biology, taxonomy) The highest category in the classification of organisms, ranking above regnum.

   Synonym: domain

Latin

Etymology

From dominus (“master, lord”)

Noun

dominium n (genitive domini? or domin?); second declension

1. feast, banquet
2. rule, dominion
3. ownership

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

References

• dominium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dominium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dominium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• dominium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• dominium in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dominium in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Etymology

From Middle English dominion, from Middle French dominion, from Medieval Latin dominio, equiv. to Latin dominium (“lordship, right of ownership”), from dominus (“lord”), from domus (“house”). See demain, demesne, domain, dominium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??m?nj?n/, /do??m?nj?n/
• Rhymes: -?nj?n
• Hyphenation: do?min?ion

Noun

dominion (countable and uncountable, plural dominions)

1. Power or the use of power; sovereignty over something; stewardship, supremacy.
   • 1881, Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides Translated into English

     To choose between dominion or slavery.
2. predominance; ascendancy
   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     Objects placed foremost ought […] have dominion over things which are confus'd and transient.

3. (sometimes figuratively) A kingdom, nation, or other sphere of influence; governed territory.
4. (taxonomy) kingdom
5. (biblical tradition) An order of angel in Christian angelology, ranked above virtues and below thrones.

   Synonym: domination

Related terms

• dominate
• domination
• dominator
• domineering
• domino
• subdominion

Translations

Further reading

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

Finnish

Noun

dominion

1. Genitive singular form of dominio.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?.mi.nj??/

Noun

dominion m (plural dominions)

1. dominion

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English dominion, from Latin dominium

Noun

dominion m (definite singular dominionen, indefinite plural dominioner or dominions, definite plural dominionene)

1. a dominion

Usage notes

The use of dominions as indefinite plural may be from Danish via Riksmål.

References

• “dominion” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “dominion” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English dominion, from Latin dominium

Noun

dominion m (definite singular dominionen, indefinite plural dominionar, definite plural dominionane)

1. a dominion

References

• “dominion” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

From French dominion

Noun

dominion n (plural dominioane)

1. dominion

Declension