dome English · revision 14973

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1513|origins=ine-pro *dem-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: UK /dəʊm/, US /doʊm/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ In its main sense it is [[bor|fr|dôme]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986)^(MWU 2024)^(NODE 1998) from [[oc|doma]] in Barnhart and Etymonline,^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) or from [[it|duomo|t=cathedral, dome]] in Hoad, Merriam-Webster and the NODE,^(Hoad 1986)^(MWU 2024)^(NODE 1998) ultimately from [[grc|δῶμα|tr=dôma|t=house, housetop]] or [[la|domus|t=house]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986)^(Cresswell 2021) from [[ine-pro|*dem-|t=house, household]].^(Etymonline) An earlier English dome, a house or stately building (1513), was taken directly from the Latin word.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)^(Cresswell 2021)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A house or stately building: 1513, a sense now only poetic.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988)^(MWU 2024)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ A cathedral church is an obsolete sense of 1691, after the Italian and German use of their words for God's house.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) The rounded vault forming a roof, the cupola that often crowned the crossing of a cathedral, is from 1656, in Blount's Glossographia.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline) The vault of a cave or of the sky is from 1727, and a rounded mountain summit from 1788.^(OED 1989) In geology a dome is a structure whose layers slope away in all directions (1833).^(OED 1989)^(Collins 2023) In slang the head is the dome (1891).^(OED 1989)^(AHD) The verb, to cover with a dome, is from 1876.^(MWU 2024)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1513 – a stately building.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1656 – a rounded roof.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1691 – a cathedral (obsolete).^(OED 1989)

+ * 1727 – a natural dome.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1891 – the head (slang).^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A rounded roof or vault, shaped like half a sphere.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # Something shaped like this.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(slang)'' The human head.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(geology)'' A structure in which rock layers slope away in all directions from a centre.^(Collins 2023)^(OED 1989)

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+ ===Verb===

+ # To cover with a dome, or to shape like one.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[domal]]

+ * [[domelike]]

+ * [[astrodome]]

+ * [[brachydome]]

+ * [[domical]]

+ * [[geodome]]

+ * [[macrodome]]

+ * [[radome]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[domestic]]

+ * [[domicile]]

+ * [[timber]]

+ * [[duomo]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}