domus Latin · revision 771

+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈdɔ.mʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈdɔː.mus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''domus''' ''f'' (genitive domūs or domī); irregular, variously declined, fourth declension, second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*domo-]], from the Proto-Indo-European root noun [[ine-pro|*dṓm|t=house]];^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary traces this to the root [[m|ine-pro|*dem-|t=to build]].^(Wiktionary) De Vaan explains the feminine gender from the original root noun: Old Latin has mainly o-stem forms, and the fourth-declension forms may be an attempt to fit a feminine noun to a more usual pattern.^(de Vaan 2008) It is cognate with [[sa|दम|tr=dáma-]], [[grc|δόμος|tr=dómos]], [[lt|nãmas]] and [[cu|домъ|tr=domъ]], all "house".^(de Vaan 2008) It is also related to [[dominus]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Livius Andronicus (280/260–before 200 BC).^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) Plautus uses it for the house where one lives, with the old genitive ''domī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It was the house as a home, the seat of a family, and in the city a large private house as distinct from apartment blocks.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Poets extended it to the homes of birds and animals, the shells of molluscs, and the tomb as the home of the dead.^(OLD 2012) It could mean one's home town or country, and the seat of an activity: Cicero calls Athens the home of learning.^(OLD 2012) It also meant the people of a house, the household and family, and a school of philosophers.^(OLD 2012) Idioms built on ''domī'' and ''domō'' meant "in oneself" and "from one's own resources".^(OLD 2012)

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+ In medieval Latin a ''domus'' was a court or royal household, a dynasty, a bishop's residence, a farm or manor, and, as ''domus Deī'', a church, monastery or hospice; it could also mean a cathedral.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Du Cange 1883) From this sense come Old Frisian ''dōm'' and Old High German ''tuom'', [[de|Dom]].^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 280/260–before 200 BC – Livius Andronicus uses the word.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses the genitive ''domī'' and the ablative ''domū''.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius speaks of the leafy homes of birds.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero calls Athens the home of learning.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace uses ''Socratica domus'' for the Socratic school.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|house]], [[m|en|home]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A house as a building, especially a town [[m|en|mansion]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # The dwelling of an animal; the [[m|en|shell]] of a mollusc.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A [[m|en|tomb]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # One's home town or country.^(OLD 2012)

+ # The seat or home of something.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A [[m|en|household]], family.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A school of philosophers.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A court; a royal household; a [[m|en|dynasty]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A bishop's residence; a farm or [[m|en|manor]].^(Niermeyer 1976)^(Du Cange 1883)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A church, [[m|en|cathedral]] or monastery (''domus Deī''); a [[m|en|hospice]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[domesticus]]

+ * [[domicēnium]]

+ * [[domicurius]]

+ * [[dominus]]

+ * [[domiporta]]

+ * [[domiseda]]

+ * [[domuitiō]]

+ * [[domuncula]]

+ * [[domuscula]]

+ * [[domūsiō]]

+ * [[domī]]

+ * [[domītus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[domicilium]]

+ * [[de|Dom]]

+ * [[en|timber]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Domus'' mixes second- and fourth-declension endings.^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012) Without a preposition, ''domī'' means "at home", ''domum'' "homeward" and ''domō'' "from home".^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}