domestic English · revision 3909

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1425|origins=la domus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /dəˈmes.tɪk/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|frm|domestique]] and directly [[der|la|domesticus|t=belonging to the household]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(MWU 2024) from [[m|la|domus|t=house]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) from [[ine-pro|*dem-|t=house, household]].^(Etymonline) The Latin adjective was presumably formed from a lost *domestis, under the influence of words such as rusticus.^(Barnhart 1988)^(SOED 2002) It is related to [[dome]], [[domicile]], [[domesticate]] and [[timber]].^(Barnhart 1988)^(Hoad 1986)^(MWU 2024)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Made or prepared in the home: before 1425 in Barnhart,^(Barnhart 1988) the early 15th century in Etymonline.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ “Belonging to one's own country, not foreign” is from 1545,^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989) and “of the home or household” from 1611, in Shakespeare's Cymbeline.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989) Of animals, “tame, living under human care”, is from the 1610s,^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) and of people, “devoted to home life”, from the 1650s.^(Etymonline) The noun, a member of the household, is from 1539, and a household servant from 1613, in Shakespeare's Henry VIII;^(Barnhart 1988) the longer phrase servaunt domestical is attested from the mid-15th century.^(Etymonline) ''Domestics'', articles of home manufacture, is from the 1620s, in the 19th-century United States especially home-made cotton cloth.^(Etymonline) ''Domestic violence'' meant revolution and insurrection in the 19th century, as in the United States Constitution, and violence in the home from 1977.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1425 – made in the home.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1539 – noun, a household member.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1545 – of one's own country.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1611 – of the household.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1613 – a household servant.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1620 – of tame animals.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1977 – ''domestic violence'' in the home.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of or relating to the family or [[household]].^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # Fond of home life and household affairs.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # Of animals, tame or [[domesticate|alt=domesticated]].^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # Of a country's internal affairs.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # Produced in or native to a particular country.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A household [[servant]].^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

+ # An article of home manufacture, such as cotton cloth or household linen.^(AHD)^(MW Collegiate)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[domestically]]

+ * [[antidomestic]]

+ * [[domesticize]]

+ * [[nondomestic]]

+ * [[predomestic]]

+ * [[semidomestic]]

+ * [[undomestic]]

+ * [[domestic violence]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[domesticate]]

+ * [[domesticity]]

+ * [[dome]]

+ * [[domicile]]

+ * [[dominate]]

+ * [[timber]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}