Dom

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Shortenings.

Proper noun

DomCategory:English lemmas#DOMCategory:English proper nouns#DOMCategory:English uncountable nouns#DOMCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DOMCategory:Pages with entries#DOMCategory:Pages with 5 entries#DOM

  1. A unisex given nameCategory:English given names#DOMCategory:English male given names#DOMCategory:English female given names#DOMCategory:English unisex given names#DOM, a form of Dominic or Dominique.
  2. (BDSMCategory:en:BDSM#DOM) Alternative letter-case form of dom.

Etymology 2

From PortugueseCategory:English terms derived from Portuguese#DOM dom, and its source, LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#DOM dominus.

Noun

Dom (plural Doms)Category:English lemmas#DOMCategory:English nouns#DOMCategory:English countable nouns#DOMCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DOMCategory:Pages with entries#DOMCategory:Pages with 5 entries#DOM

  1. A title given to royalty and high-ranking ecclesiastics in Portugal and Brazil.
  2. A title given to Roman Catholic monastic dignitaries.

Etymology 3

From HindiCategory:English terms derived from Hindi#DOM [Term?]Category:Hindi term requests#DOM, from SanskritCategory:English terms derived from Sanskrit#DOM डोम (ḍoma). Doublet of RomCategory:English doublets#DOM.

Noun

Dom (plural Doms)Category:English lemmas#DOMCategory:English nouns#DOMCategory:English countable nouns#DOMCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DOMCategory:Pages with entries#DOMCategory:Pages with 5 entries#DOM

  1. A caste (or member of this caste) in Indian society, originally comprising drummers or travelling musicians and now generally referring to a Dalit subcaste responsible for the cremation and disposal of dead bodies.
    • 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 2:
      Chand Ghat, where Dolly lives, is primarily a Dom neighbourhood, home to a small community of corpse-burners.
      Category:English terms with quotations#DOM

Etymology 4

Related to Rom and Lom.

Proper noun

Dom (plural Doms)Category:English lemmas#DOMCategory:English nouns#DOMCategory:English countable nouns#DOMCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DOMCategory:Pages with entries#DOMCategory:Pages with 5 entries#DOM

  1. An Indo-Aryan ethnic group, living mainly in the Middle East and North Africa.
  2. (sometimes offensiveCategory:English offensive terms#DOM) A Middle Eastern Gypsy.

Anagrams

Category:English diminutives of male given names#DOM

German

Alternative forms

  • Thum (obsolete since early 19th c.)

Etymology

15th-century alteration (see below) of older Thum, from Middle High GermanCategory:German terms derived from Middle High German#DOM and Old High GermanCategory:German terms derived from Old High German#DOM tuom, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#DOM *dōm (whence Old Dutch duom, Middle Low German dôm), from Medieval LatinCategory:German terms derived from Medieval Latin#DOM domus (literally “house”). The use probably goes back to domus episcopatus/episcopalis (“house of the bishopric”).[1][2] An alternative theory derives it from domus ecclesiae (“church house”), after Ancient GreekCategory:German terms derived from Ancient Greek#DOM οἶκος τῆς ἐκκλησίας (oîkos tês ekklēsías).[3]

The modern alteration Dom follows Middle FrenchCategory:German terms derived from Middle French#DOM dome, from ItalianCategory:German terms derived from Italian#DOM duomo, from the Latin. It was probably reinforced by the inherited Middle Low GermanCategory:German terms derived from Middle Low German#DOM form (see above).[4] Thum survived longest in the south.[5] The Dutch cognate dom was similarly influenced by French.

Pronunciation

Noun

Dom m (strong, genitive Doms or Domes, plural Dome)Category:German lemmas#DOMCategory:German nouns#DOMCategory:German entries with incorrect language header#DOMCategory:German masculine nouns#DOMCategory:Pages with entries#DOMCategory:Pages with 5 entries#DOM

  1. cathedral (church serving as seat of a bishop, by extension, any large church)

Declension

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ „Dom“, in Pfeifer, Wolfgang et al.: Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (1993), digitalisierte Version im Digitalen Wörterbuch der Deutschen Sprache.
  2. ↑ Philippa, Marlies; Debrabandere, Frans; Quak, Arend; Schoonheim, Tanneke; van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009), “dom1”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands‎ (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
  3. ↑ Dom, Duden.
  4. ↑ Paul, Hermann: Deutsche Grammatik, vol. I, Halle a.S., 1916, p. 333, 335.
  5. ↑ Adelung, Johann Christoph: Grammatisch-Kritisches Wörterbuch der Hochdeutschen Mundart, vol. I, Leipzig, 1793, col. 1513.

Further reading

Category:de:Architecture#DOMCategory:de:Christianity#DOM

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From LatinCategory:Portuguese terms derived from Latin#DOM domĭnus (“lord; sir”). Compare Spanish Don. Doublet of dono and dominóCategory:Portuguese doublets#DOM.

Pronunciation

Noun

Dom m (plural Dons)Category:Portuguese lemmas#DOMCategory:Portuguese nouns#DOMCategory:Portuguese countable nouns#DOMCategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#DOMCategory:Portuguese masculine nouns#DOMCategory:Pages with entries#DOMCategory:Pages with 5 entries#DOM

  1. Sir (an honorific title usually used before an adult man's given name, historically used by members of the high nobility, royalty, and certain religious categories in Portugal and Brazil)
    • 1930 January 3, “O novo abbade benedictino [The new Benedictine abbot]”, in Correio da Manhã‎, volume XXIX, number 10742, page 5:
      A comunidade benedictina reuniu-se hontem para eleger o novo abbade, na vaga de d. Ruperto Rudolf, fallecido em São Paulo.
      Foi eleito dom Placido Etaeb.
      The Benedictine community gathered yesterday to elect a new abbot, in place of Dom Ruperto Rudolf, who died in São Paulo.
      Dom Placido Etaeb was elected.
      Category:Portuguese terms with quotations#DOM

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Saterland Frisian

n'Dom.

Etymology

Category:Saterland Frisian terms derived from Proto-Germanic#DOMCategory:Saterland Frisian terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#DOM

From Old FrisianCategory:Saterland Frisian terms inherited from Old Frisian#DOMCategory:Saterland Frisian terms derived from Old Frisian#DOM dam, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:Saterland Frisian terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#DOMCategory:Saterland Frisian terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#DOM *damm. Cognates include West Frisian dam and German Damm.

Pronunciation

Noun

Dom m (plural Domme)Category:Saterland Frisian lemmas#DOMCategory:Saterland Frisian nouns#DOMCategory:Saterland Frisian entries with incorrect language header#DOMCategory:Saterland Frisian masculine nouns#DOMCategory:Pages with entries#DOMCategory:Pages with 5 entries#DOM

  1. dam

References

  • Marron C. Fort (2015), “Dom”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN
Category:stq:Walls and fences#DOM

Swedish

Proper noun

DomCategory:Swedish lemmas#DOMCategory:Swedish proper nouns#DOMCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#DOMCategory:Pages with entries#DOMCategory:Pages with 5 entries#DOM

  1. abbreviation of DomarbokenCategory:Swedish abbreviations#DOM: Jdg., Judg.
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