domicile

English

Alternative forms

• domicil (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English domicelle, domicylie, from Middle French domicile and directly from Latin domicilium.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɒm.ɪ.saɪl/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑ.mɪ.saɪl/, /ˈdɑ.mɪ.sɪl/

Noun

domicile (plural domiciles)

1. (formal) A home or residence.

   The call to jury duty was sent to my legal domicile; too bad I was on vacation at the time.

2. (law) A residence at a particular place accompanied with an intention to remain there for an unlimited time; a residence accepted as a final abode.
   • 1838, Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland:

     the status of marriage has been indelibly fixed by the English celebration; and by this decision, her domicile, as a married woman, has been held to be that of her husband

3. (astrology) The zodiac sign over which a planet (a term which in astrology includes the Sun and Moon) is considered to have especially strong influence; the planet is called the sign's ruling planet or sign ruler.

Related terms

• domiciled
• domiciliary

Translations

home or residence

• Bulgarian: резиде́нция (bg) f (rezidéncija), местожи́телство (bg) n (mestožítelstvo)
• Catalan: domicili (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 住所 (zh) (zhùsuǒ), 住宅 (zh) (zhùzhái)

• Finnish: kotipaikka (fi), kotiosoite (fi), asunto (fi)
• French: domicile (fr) m
• German: Domizil (de) n
• Greek: κατοικία (el) f (katoikía)
• Indonesian: domisili (id), tempat tinggal (id)
• Italian: domicilio (it) m
• Japanese: 住所 (ja) (じゅうしょ, jūsho), 住居 (ja) (すまい, sumai, じゅうきょ, jūkyo), 住宅 (ja) (じゅうたく, jūtaku)
• Latin: domicilium (la) n
• Macedonian: живеалиште (mk) n (živealište)
• Malay: mastautin
• Maori: tūrangawaewae
• Persian: کده (fa) (kade)
• Polish: domicyl m
• Portuguese: domicílio (pt) m
• Romanian: domiciliu (ro) n
• Russian: ме́сто жи́тельства n (mésto žítelʹstva), местожи́тельство (ru) n (mestožítelʹstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: станиште n, боравиште n

  Roman: stanište (sh) n, boravište (sh) n

• Spanish: domicilio (es) m
• Thai: ภูมิลำเนา (th) (puum-lam-nao)

a residence accepted as a final abode

• Finnish: asuinpaikka (fi), kotipaikka (fi)
• Thai: ภูมิลำเนา (th) (puum-lam-nao)

Verb

domicile (third-person singular simple present domiciles, present participle domiciling, simple past and past participle domiciled)

1. To have a domicile in a particular place.

   The answer depends on which state he was domiciled in at his death.

Derived terms

• dedomicile

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin domicilium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔ.mi.sil/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

domicile m (plural domiciles)

1. domicile

Derived terms

• élire domicile
• sans domicile fixe

Related terms

• domiciliaire

Further reading

• “domicile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.