Latin

Proper noun

Dominus m ‎(genitive Dominī); second declension

1. (religion) The Lord, the God of Abraham and the Hebrew Tanakh; (Christian) God the Father
   • 405, Jerome and others, Vulgate, Daniel 1:2

     ...et tradidit Dominus in manu eius Ioachim regem Iudae

     ..."And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand."

     Sit nomen Domini benedictum.

Inflection

Second declension.

Synonyms

• (the Lord): Deus

Derived terms

• annō Dominī

Related terms

English

Noun

dominus ‎(plural domini)

1. master; sir; a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doˈminus/

Verb

dominus

1. conditional of domini

Latin

Etymology

domus ‎(“house”) +‎ -inus (forming masculine nouns describing owners or residents)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.mi.nus/, [ˈdɔ.mɪ.nʊs]

Noun

dominus m ‎(genitive dominī); second declension

1. an owner of a residence; the master of its servants and slaves
2. a lord

Declension

Second declension.

Derived terms

Descendants

Synonyms

• erus

References

• dŏmĭnus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dominus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• DOMINUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “dŏmĭnus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 555.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the manager: dominus gregis
    
  • to examine slaves by torture: de servis quaerere (in dominum)
    
• dominus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• dominus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “dominus” on page 571 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• “dominus” on pages 353–4 of Jan Frederik Niermeyer’s Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (1976)