Borrowed fromLatindominus(“master”).Doublet ofdan,dom,domine,dominie, anddon.
dominus (pluraldomini)
- (historical)master;sir; a title of respect formerly applied to aknight orclergyman, and sometimes to thelord of amanor, castle or anacademicmaster
January 1848,The New Sporting Magazine, volume15, page23:The vesper bell had rung its parting note; thedomini 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.
dominus
- conditional ofdomini
The original identity of the second vowel of this word is unclear:
In either case, likely further related todomus, fromProto-Italic*domos, fromProto-Indo-European*dem-(“to build”).[1][2][3]
dominus m (genitivedominī,femininedomina);second declension
- master,possessor,ruler,lord,proprietor
- Synonyms:erus,domnus,arbiter
- owner of aresidence;master of hisservants andslaves
- master of afeast,entertainer,host
- master of aplay or ofpublicgames,employer ofplayers orgladiators
- sir(agreeting, in thevocative case)
Second-declension noun.
- ^De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “dominus”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page177
- ^“dominus” on page 571 of theOxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- ^De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “domus, -ī / ūs”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,pages178-179
- “dominus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dominus”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "dominus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- dŏmĭnus inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page555.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
- the manager:dominus gregis
- to examine slaves by torture:de servis quaerere (in dominum)
- “dominus”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “dominus”, inWilliam Smith et al., editor (1890),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “dominus”, inMediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus,Leiden,Boston:E. J. Brill, pages353–4
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