Acaste (or member of this caste) in Indian society, originally comprising drummers or travelling musicians and now generally referring to aDalitsubcaste responsible for the cremation and disposal of dead bodies.
2023, Radhika Iyengar,Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 2:
Chand Ghat, where Dolly lives, is primarily aDom neighbourhood, home to a small community of corpse-burners.
The modern alterationDom followsMiddle Frenchdome, fromItalianduomo, from the Latin. It was probably reinforced by the inheritedMiddle Low German form (see above).[4]Thum survived longest in the south.[5] The Dutch cognatedom was similarly influenced by French.
^„Dom“, in Pfeifer, Wolfgang et al.: Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (1993), digitalisierte Version im Digitalen Wörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache.
1930 January 3, “O novo abbade benedictino [The new Benedictine abbot]”, inCorreio da Manhã[2], volume XXIX, number10742, page 5:
A comunidade benedictina reuniu-se hontem para eleger o novo abbade, na vaga de d. Ruperto Rudolf, fallecido em São Paulo. Foi eleitodom Placido Etaeb.
The Benedictine community gathered yesterday to elect a new abbot, in place of Dom Ruperto Rudolf, who died in São Paulo. Dom Placido Etaeb was elected.
