duomo
English
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Italian duomo. Doublet of dome and domus.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈdwəʊməʊ/, /duːˈəʊməʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -əʊməʊ
Noun
editduomo (plural duomos or duomi)
- A cathedral, or a cathedral-like building, especially one in Italy.
- 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page)”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
- Of tower or duomo, sunny sweet.
- 1914, E. V. Lucas, A Wanderer in Venice:
- There was no doubt as to the direction, with the campanile of the duomo as a beacon.
References
edit- “duomo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Italian
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editInherited as a shortening of Latin domus ecclēsiae (“meeting-house, house of the assembly”, a calque of Ancient Greek οἶκος τῆς ἐκκλησίας (oîkos tês ekklēsías), designating a private house placed at the disposal of the Christian community) and later domus Dominī (“house of our Lord”) or Deī (“of God”); from Proto-Italic *domos, from Proto-Indo-European *dṓm, derived from the root *dem- (“to build”).
Alternative forms
editNoun
editduomo m (plural duomi)
Etymology 2
editNoun
editduomo m (plural duomi)
- (mechanics) steam dome
- the upper part of an alembic
Further reading
edit- “Western architecture - Early Christian, First period, to AD 313”, in Encyclopedia Britannica[1], 2021 April 13 (last accessed)
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