domesticus Latin · revision 4076

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Rhetorica ad Herennium|origins=la domus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [dɔˈmɛs.tɪ.kʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [doˈmɛs.ti.kus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''domesticus''' (feminine domestica, neuter domesticum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is derived from [[domus]] “house”, probably through a form [[m|la|*domestis]] like [[agrestis]], with the suffix of [[rusticus|alt=rūsticus]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) Etymonline traces ''domus'' to [[ine-pro|*dem-|t=house, household]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The Rhetorica ad Herennium speaks of blood splashed on the walls of one's own house.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates the work 86/82 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant belonging to the house, as Cicero's ''intra domesticos parietes'' “within the walls of a house”, a garment worn at home, and Varro's water from his own house.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Lewis & Short note that the literal sense was rare and the transferred senses far more frequent: of a family or household, as family witnesses, and one's own or personal.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) It meant native or internal as opposed to foreign, and customary or familiar.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) As a noun it was a member of the household.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ In medieval Latin it was used of domestic animals, of someone resident or confidential, and of monastic life.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(MLW) As a noun it was a royal official among the Franks, the steward of the king's domains, a member of the imperial guard and a courtier.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Köbler 2010) English ''domestic'' came from Old French and Latin in the early 15th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 86/82 BC – The Rhetorica ad Herennium uses it of the walls of a house.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of the household and of what is native.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace has ''domesticus otior'', “I idle at home”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 15th century – English ''domestic'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Of the house, household, [[m|en|domestic]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of the family.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Native, internal, civil.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # Personal, one's own.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Customary, [[m|en|familiar]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Of animals, domestic; confidential.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A member of the household.^(Köbler 2010)^(DMLBS)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A royal official; a member of the guard; a courtier.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[domesticātim]]

+ * [[domesticī]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[domus]]

+ * [[en|domestic]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}