FromLatindomina(“mistress”).Doublet ofdame anddonna.
domina (pluraldominasordominae)
- The head of anunnery.
1796, Matthew Lewis,The Monk, Folio Society 1985, page29:Each of the nuns was heard in her turn, while the others waited with thedomina in the adjoining vestry.
- Adominatrix.
1993 November 22, <-Inquisitor->, “ProfessionalDOMINAE (that's how it's spelled)”, inalt.sex.bondage[1] (Usenet), archived fromthe original on4 January 2026:>Couple of articles about professional dommes,[…]
It's written "domina". Period. Even in English. If you can't stand Latin endings, I'll grudgingly concede the androgynous abbreviation "dom". But a pseudo-French bastard "domme" really has no right to live, not even on a terminal screen.
1994 May 26, Alex Martelli, “Newbie Submissive....”, inalt.sex.bondage[2] (Usenet), archived fromthe original on4 January 2026:A specific of the fem-dom, sub-male scene is that it is the segment with the highest presence of professional activity -- professionaldominae abound.
1997, Rosemary Hennessy, Chrys Ingraham,Materialist feminism: a reader in class, difference, and women's lives, page294:Instead, Social Text "tarts up" the issue of sex work with sexy photos ofdominas and cross-dressers, replicating, in a slightly more self-conscious and progressive way, the nineteenth-century exoticization[…]
2004, Pamela Church Gibson,More dirty looks: gender, pornography and power:Dominas therefore stress the emotional and physical skill, as well as the dangers, involved in commercial S/M[…]
2005 December 19, Jacques Michel, “Yes mistress.”, insoc.sexuality.general[3] (Usenet), archived fromthe original on4 January 2026:I think that there is a reason why so manydominae are pro and paid: they don't get to do what they want. Maybe you talk to your pro dommes friends again and ask what they get out of it.
- Anancient Romanlady.
1863 November 21, “Literary Extracts, &c.”, inThe Hull News, number621, Kingston upon Hull, E.R.Y.,page 3, column 4:A precious article is the paint with which the Romandomina was beautified; it was well worthy of the case of ivory and rock-crystal in which it was preserved.
1956 May 23, Jean Yothers, “On the Town”, inOrlando Sentinel, volume66, number272, Orlando, Fla.,page20, column 1:“Can you translate this invitation? I hate to display my ignorance around your Latin students,” Mrs. Dooley, who was attired in a royal purple gown as a Romandomina, graciously complied, so if you’ve been worrying over the translation to the first paragraph, here ’tis.
2012, Armando Roggero,The Revenge of the Ninth: Heading to Honor and Glory through Effort and Trial,Lulu,→ISBN, pages71 and152:Flavius on the other hand holds the career of the gladiator in high esteem, as despite running the unavoidable risk of death at every turn, gladiators are the most renowned and admired of all men and are sought after by the most beautiful and wealthy Romandominae.[…] Though dressed like Roman patriciandominae, their height, features and hair colour show that they are young Briton girls.
2012, J. F. Ridgley,Vows of Revenge,→ISBN,page498:The ancient historian Horace remarked once that respectable women should not draw attention to themselves by using cosmetics, perfume, or hairpieces. However, that didn’t last long with the Romandominas.
2017, Mary Dove, “Quintus”, inThe End of Seven, Dog Ear Publishing,→ISBN,page346:The exotic mistress fulfilled the lust of his body, but her status came far short of entertaining him as he’d grown accustomed with fair Romandominas, engaging their obscene wittiness and patrician prattle.
- IPA(key): /domina/[d̪o.mi.na]
- Rhymes:-ina,-a
- Hyphenation:do‧mi‧na
domina
- short form ofdominatu(“to dominate”)
domina
- inflection ofdominar:
- third-personsingularpresentindicative
- second-personsingularimperative
domina f
- domina,domme,dominatrix(dominant female in sadomasochistic practices)
Declension ofdomina (hard feminine)
FromLatindomina.
- IPA(key): /ˈdominɑ/,[ˈdo̞minɑ̝]
- Rhymes:-ominɑ
- Syllabification(key):do‧mi‧na
- Hyphenation(key):do‧mi‧na
domina
- (BDSM)domina,domme,dominatrix(dominant female in sadomasochistic practices)
domina
- third-personsingular past historic ofdominer
domina
- inflection ofdominar:
- third-personsingularpresentindicative
- second-personsingularimperative
domina
- present ofdominar
- imperative ofdominar
domina
- inflection ofdominare:
- third-personsingularpresentindicative
- second-personsingularimperative
Feminine ofdominus. IfOscanδιομανας(diomanas,gen. sg.) is cognate, one can reconstructProto-Italic*domVnā with an uncertain second vowel; see its entry for discussion.
domina f (genitivedominae,masculinedominus);first declension
- lady ormistress of the house
First-declension noun (dative/ablative plural in-īs or dative/ablative plural in-ābus).
- domna(Vulgar, Late and Medieval Latin)
- Dalmatian:dona
- Balkan Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- Sardinian:
- Padanian:
- Gallo-Italic:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
- “domina”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “domina”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "domina", in Charles du Fresne du Cange,Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “domina”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
dõmina
- third-personsingular/pluralpresent ofdominti
domina
- inflection ofdominar:
- third-personsingularpresentindicative
- second-personsingularimperative
Learned borrowing fromLatindomina.Doublet ofdama.
domina f
- domina,dominatrix,domme(dominant female in sadomasochistic practices)
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
domina n
- inflection ofdomino:
- genitivesingular
- nominative/accusative/vocativeplural
- domina inWielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- domina in Polish dictionaries at PWN
domina
- inflection ofdominar:
- third-personsingularpresentindicative
- second-personsingularimperative
Borrowed fromLatindominārī, or viaFrenchdominer/Italiandominare (both borrowings from Latin).
a domina (third-person singular presentdomină,past participledominat,third-person subjunctivedomine) 1st conjugation
- todominate
- Synonym:stăpâni
- IPA(key): /doˈmina/[d̪oˈmi.na]
- Rhymes:-ina
- Syllabification:do‧mi‧na
domina
- inflection ofdominar:
- third-personsingularpresentindicative
- second-personsingularimperative
domina c
- adomina (dominant female in sadomasochistic practices)
- Synonyms:dominatrix,dominatris
