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English

Noun

dominos

1. Alternative spelling of dominoes

Anagrams

• monoids

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do?minos/

Verb

dominos

1. future of domini

French

Noun

dominos m

1. plural of domino

Latin

Noun

domin?s

1. accusative plural of dominus

Swedish

Noun

dominos

1. indefinite genitive singular of domino

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?m?n?s/

Noun

dominus (plural domini)

1. 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

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   • 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.

Related terms

• domina
• donzel

Further reading

• Dominus (title) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• dimuons

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do?minus/

Verb

dominus

1. conditional of domini

Latin

Etymology

• 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 *domh?nos (“subduing”), from *demh?- (“to domesticate, tame”), whence also dom?.

In either case likely further related to Latin domus from Proto-Indo-European *dem-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?do.mi.nus/, [?d??m?n?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?do.mi.nus/, [?d???minus]

Noun

dominus m (genitive domin?, feminine domina); second declension

1. a master, possessor, ruler, lord, proprietor
2. an owner of a residence; the master of its servants and slaves
3. the master of a feast, the entertainer, host
4. the master of a play or of public games, the employer of players or gladiators
5. sir (greeting, in the vocative case)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Synonyms

• domnus
• erus

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• “dominus” on page 571 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• 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

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, 1883–1887)
• d?m?nus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 555
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• 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: Brill, pages 353–4